incineratedadj.
/ɪnˈsɪnəreɪtɪd/ a. Burnt or reduced to ashes.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [adjective] > burnt > to ashes
incinerate1471
incinerated1658
1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall ii. 15 Near the same plot of ground..were digged up coals and incinerated substances.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 37 The difference between the weight of the simply dried and the incinerated solids.
b. Reduced to ‘ashes’, i.e. to the dust of death.
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the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective]
deadOE
lifelessOE
of lifeOE
storvena1225
dead as a door-nail1362
ydead1387
stark deadc1390
colda1400
bypast1425
perishedc1440
morta1450
obita1450
unquickc1449
gone?a1475
dead and gone1482
extinct1483
departed1503
bygonea1522
amort1546
soulless1553
breathless1562
parted1562
mortified1592
low-laid1598
disanimate1601
carcasseda1603
defunct1603
no morea1616
with God1617
death-stricken1618
death-strucken1622
expired1631
past itc1635
incinerated1657
stock-dead1662
dead as a herring1664
death-struck1688
as dead as a nit1789
(as) dead as mutton1792
low1808
laid in the locker1815
strae-dead1820
disanimated1833
ghosted1834
under the daisies1842
irresuscitable1843
under the sod1847
toes up1851
dead and buried1863
devitalized1866
translated1869
dead and done (for, with)1886
daid1890
bung1893
(as) dead as the (or a) dodo1904
six feet under1942
brown bread1969
1657 A. Farindon XXX. Serm. i. 55 That power which is requisite to raise a body now putrified and incinerated.
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