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Incinerate

//ɪnˈsɪnəɹeɪt//

Definitions

1
To destroy by burning.
His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes.
Similar
burn forsweal
2
To annihilate (not necessarily by burning).

adj

1
Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.
FIRE burneth wood, making it first luminous; then black and brittle; and lastly , broken and incinerate

Word Origin

From Latin incinerātus, perfect participle of incinerō (“to burn into ashes”), from cinis (“ashes”).

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