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incinerates

incinerates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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).

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Questions about incinerates

What is incinerates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Incinerates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of incinerate.

Words near incinerates in the dictionary

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

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