incinerator

noun

in·​cin·​er·​a·​tor in-ˈsi-nə-ˌrā-tər 

: one that incinerates

especially : a furnace or a container for incinerating waste materials

Examples of incinerator in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Half went to landfills and waste incinerators, seven stopped pinging at transfer stations that don’t recycle or sort plastic bags, six last pinged at the store where they were dropped off, and three ended up in Indonesia and Malaysia. —Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025

The rest goes to landfills, the ocean or incinerators. —Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025

Keefe Harrison founded The Recycling Partnership in 2014 to boost recycling rates in the U.S., where two thirds of the solid waste that households discard every year ends up in landfills or incinerators. —Elisabeth Brier, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

And 92 million metric tons of textiles—which can range from leftover scraps and cuttings to entire runs of fabric—can end up in warehouses, or worse, landfills or incinerators. —Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 16 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1883, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for incinerator

• accelerator
• accumulator
• adjudicator
• administrator
• appropriator
• articulator
• attenuator
• bronchodilator
• collaborator
• communicator
• conciliator
• cooperator

Kids Definition

incinerator

noun

in·​cin·​er·​a·​tor in-ˈsin-ə-ˌrāt-ər 

: a furnace or a container for burning waste materials