verb
- to burn something completely to ashes
Examples
- The factory will incinerate the medical waste at high temperatures.
- They decided to incinerate the old documents rather than shred them.
- The crematorium incinerates bodies as part of the funeral process.
- Lightning struck the barn and incinerated it within hours.
- The city plans to incinerate garbage to generate electricity.
- Forest fires can incinerate thousands of acres in a single day.