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incinerated

incinerated is the simple past and past participle of incinerate.

Meaning of incinerate

Verb

incinerate (third-person singular simple present incinerates, present participle incinerating, simple past and past participle incinerated)

  1. (transitive) To destroy by burning.
    • His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes.1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., chapter 1, in Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 1
    Synonyms:
    burn, forsweal
  2. (informal) To annihilate (not necessarily by burning).

See all 3 meanings of incinerate

Adjective

incinerated (not comparable)

  1. Destroyed by incineration.

Words formed from incinerated

Questions about incinerated

What does incinerated mean?
Incinerated means destroyed by incineration.
What is incinerated the simple past and past participle of?
Incinerated is the simple past and past participle of incinerate.
What part of speech is incinerated?
Incinerated is an adjective.

Words near incinerated in the dictionary

  1. inciding
  2. incidious
  3. incienso
  4. incinerable
  5. incinerate
  6. incinerated
  7. incinerates
  8. incinerating
  9. incineration
  10. incinerations
  11. incinerator

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