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)
- 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
- To annihilate (not necessarily by burning).
Adjective
incinerated (not comparable)
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
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Adapted from Wiktionary: incinerated (page history and authors); incinerate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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