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incinerate verb [ ɪnˈsɪnəreɪt ]

• destroy (something, especially waste material) by burning.
• "waste packaging is to be incinerated rather than buried in landfills"
Similar: burn, burn up, reduce to ashes, consume by fire, carbonize, cremate,
Origin: late 15th century: from medieval Latin incinerat- ‘burnt to ashes’, from the verb incinerare, from in- ‘into, towards’ + cinis, ciner- ‘ashes’.


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