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Examples of incinerate in a Sentence
The waste is incinerated in a large furnace.
Recent Examples of incinerate from the Web
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About 13,000 tons of trash from 16,250 Manchester dwellings is incinerated annually.
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The city should cap their numbers, control their behavior, or, better yet, incinerate the whole lot.
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The Viper arrives, firing another Hellfire and completely incinerating the attack boat.
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Cruise ships exhale massive amounts of diesel emissions and incinerate garbage by the metric ton.
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Ricci offered to turn on a boiler at his mill so DiSarro’s remains could be incinerated.
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Three centuries later, in 2004, a storage warehouse in east London burnt down, incinerating Charles Saatchi’s £50m trove of contemporary art by artists including Damien Hirst, Paula Rego and Chris Ofili.
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Trader was also here on June 26, 2011, the day when the Las Conchas Fire erupted and incinerated 43,000 acres of Jemez Mountains pine forest in 11 hours.
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Last month, a wheat field near the village was burned to the ground by such a kite, and on Wednesday another incinerated dozens of acres of forest adjacent to Kfar Aza.
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Origin and Etymology of incinerate
Medieval Latin incineratus, past participle of incinerare, from Latin in- + ciner-, cinis ashes; akin to Greek konis dust, ashes
INCINERATE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of incinerate for English Language Learners
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: to burn (something) completely
INCINERATE Defined for Kids
Definition of incinerate for Students
incinerated;
incinerating
: to burn to ashes
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of incinerate
incinerated;
incinerating
: to cause to burn to ashes
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