INCINERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incinerate mean? 

• INCINERATE (verb)
  The verb INCINERATE has 2 senses:

1. become reduced to ashes

2. cause to undergo combustion

  Familiarity information: INCINERATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCINERATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they incinerate    ... he / she / it incinerates   
Past simple: incinerated   
Past participle: incinerated   
-ing form: incinerating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become reduced to ashes

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The paper incinerated quickly

Hypernyms (to "incinerate" is one way to...):

burn down; burn up; go up (burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire)

Verb group:

burn; incinerate (cause to undergo combustion)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

incineration (the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to undergo combustion

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

burn; incinerate

Context example:

The car burns only Diesel oil

Hypernyms (to "incinerate" is one way to...):

change integrity (change in physical make-up)

Verb group:

incinerate (become reduced to ashes)

burn; burn down; fire (destroy by fire)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

incineration (the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes)

incinerator (a furnace for incinerating (especially to dispose of refuse))