incinerate

English

Etymology

From Latin incinerātus, perfect participle of incinerō (“to burn into ashes”), from cinis (“ashes”).

Pronunciation

• (verb, UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsɪnəɹeɪt/

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• (adjective, UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsɪnəɹət/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsɪnɚeɪt/, /ɪnˈsɪnjɚeɪt/

Verb

incinerate (third-person singular simple present incinerates, present participle incinerating, simple past and past participle incinerated)

1. (transitive) To destroy by burning.
   • 1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., chapter 1, in Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 1:

     His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes.

Translations

destroy by burning

• Bulgarian: изгарям (bg) (izgarjam), кремирам (kremiram), изпепелявам (bg) (izpepeljavam)
• Catalan: incinerar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 焚化 (zh) (fénhuà), 燃燒／燃烧 (zh) (ránshāo)

• Dutch: verbranden (nl)
• Finnish: polttaa (fi); tuhkata (fi) (of the dead)
• French: incinérer (fr)
• German: verbrennen (de)
• Greek: αποτεφρώνω (el) (apotefróno)

  Ancient: ἀποτεφρόω (apotephróō)

• Hungarian: eléget (hu) sg
• Japanese: 焼却する (ja) (しょうきゃくする, shōkyaku suru), 燃やす (ja) (もやす, moyasu)
• Korean: 소각(燒却)하다 (ko) (sogakhada), 태우다 (ko) (tae'uda)
• Malay: menunu (ms)
• Maori: tūmata
• Polish: spopielać impf, spopielić pf, spalać (pl) impf, spalić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: incinerar (pt)
• Russian: сжига́ть (ru) impf (sžigátʹ), сжечь (ru) pf (sžečʹ), креми́ровать (ru) impf or pf (kremírovatʹ) (cremate)
• Spanish: incinerar (es)
• Swedish: förbränna (sv)
• Turkish: yakmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: згоряти (uk) pf (zhorjaty)
• Vietnamese: thiêu (vi)
• Yiddish: פֿאַרברענען (farbrenen)

Adjective

incinerate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     FIRE burneth wood, making it first luminous; then black and brittle; and lastly , broken and incinerate

Anagrams

• cantinière, creatinine, itinerance

Latin

Verb

incinerāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of incinerō

Spanish

Verb

incinerate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of incinerar combined with te