'Incinerate' definitions:
Definition of 'incinerate'
(from WordNet)
verb
Become reduced to ashes; "The paper incinerated quickly"
verb
Cause to undergo combustion; "burn garbage"; "The car burns only Diesel oil" [syn: burn, incinerate]
Definition of 'Incinerate'
From: GCIDE
- Incinerate \In*cin"er*ate\, [LL. incineratus, p. p. of incinerare to incinerate; L. pref. in- in + cinis, cineris, ashes.] Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed by fire. [Obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Incinerate'
From: GCIDE
- Incinerate \In*cin"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incinerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Incinerating.] To burn to ashes; to consume by fire; to burn. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- It is the fire only that incinerates bodies. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'incinerate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- blow to pieces,
- blow up,
- brain,
- bring down,
- bring to ruin,
- burn,
- burn down,
- burn to death,
- burn up,
- condemn,
- confound,
- consume,
- cremate,
- cut down,
- cut to pieces,
- damn,
- deal a deathblow,
- deal destruction,
- decimate,
- depredate,
- desolate,
- despoil,
- destroy,
- devastate,
- devour,
- disintegrate,
- dissolve,
- drop,
- engorge,
- fell,
- frag,
- give the quietus,
- gobble,
- gobble up,
- gun down,
- gut,
- gut with fire,
- havoc,
- incendiarize,
- jugulate,
- lapidate,
- lay in ruins,
- lay low,
- lay waste,
- pistol,
- poleax,
- ravage,
- reduce to ashes,
- riddle,
- ruin,
- ruinate,
- shipwreck,
- shoot,
- shoot down,
- shoot to death,
- shotgun,
- silence,
- stab to death,
- stone,
- stone to death,
- strike dead,
- swallow up,
- throw into disorder,
- unleash destruction,
- unleash the hurricane,
- upheave,
- vandalize,
- vaporize,
- waste,
- wrack,
- wreak havoc,
- wreck