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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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The decayed flowers will be incinerated, their ashes scattered over the city’s community gardens.
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Instead, they are appropriately gathered at the church and incinerated to create the ashes that will be used in the follow year's Ash Wednesday observance.
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The Environmental Protection Agency specifies that anyone using Avitrol must stay in any area where the neurotoxin is used and incinerate any animals that die as a result of its use so that no other creatures come into contact with it.
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Other contraband products were steamrolled or incinerated by Russian authorities.
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Still, as Virgin Island residents struggle to clean up from the hurricanes, not all residents are happy that debris can’t be incinerated.
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The products will then be incinerated as the company moves to end the world’s biggest ever outbreak of the disease.
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The government has said that the students were attacked by local police in Iguala, turned over to a drug gang, killed and incinerated at a garbage dump.
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The blaze fanned out south, incinerating large pockets of Calaveras.
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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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