| 单词 | incinerate |
| 释义 | incinerate (once / 10488 pages) v See incinerate and think: "burn, baby, burn!" Whether it’s an old love letter that makes you sad or a terrible picture of yourself, it might be better just to incinerate it, meaning, you burn it. When you burn something beyond recognition, you incinerate it, as its Latin origins in incinerare, or "into ashes" shows. Once you incinerate something, that’s pretty much all that’s left: ashes. The word has a formal feel and is often used to refer to the removal of waste material — your city might incinerate garbage, for example — but you can use it any time you need to reduce something to ashes. WORD FAMILYincinerate: incinerated, incinerates, incinerating, incineration, incinerator+/incineration: incinerations/incinerator: incinerators USAGE EXAMPLESIn addition to fibrous foods, confiscated narcotics and “anything counterfeit” — like fake Viagra, he said — is incinerated. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) This is the game you burn, even though it may also be the game that incinerates the team’s playoff chances. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) The dead, often buried in mass graves or incinerated, are rarely returned to their relatives. Economist(Dec 20, 2016) 1v become reduced to ashes The paper incinerated quickly Syn|Hyper burn cause to undergo combustion burn down, burn up, go up burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire 2v cause to undergo combustion Syn|Hyper burn burn, burn down, fire destroy by fire change integrity change in physical make-up |
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