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Incinerate   /ɪnsˈɪnərˌeɪt/   Listen
Incinerate

verb
1.
Become reduced to ashes.
2.
Cause to undergo combustion.  Synonym: burn.  "The car burns only Diesel oil"






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"Incinerate" Quotes from Famous Books



... this diary up to date, retain possession of it pending certain developments, and then incinerate it with appropriate ceremonies. So I will begin at the beginning, which is the ending of the last entry with its immortal ...
— John Henry Smith - A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life • Frederick Upham Adams

... stood the bloody spade with which the bodies had been dismembered, and there lay an empty can whose oil had been poured upon the mingled camp utensils, tent, and wagon of the herders, in the attempt to incinerate the hacked and dismembered limbs of the victims. The lawlessness of the range had culminated. The ferocity of the herder had gone beyond the savage. Here in the sweet autumn air the reek of the cattle-man's vengeance rose like some ...
— Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger - A Romance of the Mountain West • Hamlin Garland

... is to incinerate 5 grammes of the soap in a platinum dish, dissolve the residue in water, boil and filter, making the volume of filtrate up to 250 c.c., the solution being reserved for the subsequent determination of salt, silicates, and sulphates, ...
— The Handbook of Soap Manufacture • W. H. Simmons



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