'Incineration' definitions:
Definition of 'incineration'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes
Definition of 'Incineration'
From: GCIDE
- Incineration \In*cin`er*a"tion\, n. [LL. incineratio: cf. F. incin['e]ration.] The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation. [1913 Webster]
- The phenix kind, Of whose incineration, There riseth a new creation. --Skelton. Incipience
Synonyms of 'incineration'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- blazing,
- blistering,
- branding,
- burning,
- calcination,
- carbonization,
- cauterization,
- cautery,
- cineration,
- combustion,
- concremation,
- cracking,
- cremation,
- cupellation,
- deflagration,
- destructive distillation,
- distillation,
- distilling,
- flaming,
- funeral pile,
- oxidation,
- oxidization,
- parching,
- pyre,
- pyrolysis,
- reduction to ashes,
- refining,
- scorching,
- scorification,
- searing,
- self-immolation,
- singeing,
- smelting,
- suttee,
- the stake,
- thermogenesis,
- vesication