incinerate
Reduce to ashes
To incinerate is to burn something completely, reducing it to ite.
The word implies thorough destruction by fire, often of waste materials: The facility incinerates medical waste.
It extends to any intense burning: The spacecraft incinerated on reentry.
Figuratively, to utterly destroy: The scandal incinerated his political career.
Damage by heat
- igniteStart burning something
- combustCatch fire suddenly
- cremateBurn a corpse
- carbonizeConvert to charite through heat
char · scorch · blaze · torch · kindle · smolder · sear · singe
Burned matter's residue
- cindersPartly burned coal pieces
- embersSmoldering fire remnants
- sootCarbon from incomplete burning
- charBurn without destroying
cremains · remains · debris · dust · powder · clinker · dross · scoria
Destroy completely, leaving nothing
- obliterateDestroy all traces of
- eradicateDestroy completely, utterly
- devastateDestroy thoroughly and completely
- razeDestroy completely
demolish · decimate · exterminate · disintegrate · vaporize · wipe out · extirpate · efface
Corpse incineration facility
- furnaceEnclosed heat-producing structure
- kilnOven for hardening clay
- disposalAct of throwing away
- garbageDiscarded waste material
refuse · medical waste · hazardous · burn pit · smokestack · emissions · pollution
Pertaining to warmth
- calorificProducing heat energy
- searingBrowning with intense heat
- scorchingExtremely hot, burning
- blisteringExtremely intense or severe
white-hot · molten · radiant · intense · pyrotechnic
burn
Damage by heat
carbonize · char · scorch · blaze · torch · kindle · smolder · sear · singe · pyre
ashes
Burned matter's residue
char · cremains · remains · debris · dust · powder · clinker · dross · scoria · residue
annihilate
Destroy completely, leaving nothing
- obliterateDestroy all traces of
- eradicateDestroy completely, utterly
- devastateDestroy thoroughly and completely
raze · demolish · decimate · exterminate · disintegrate · vaporize · wipe out · extirpate · efface · expunge
crematorium
Corpse incineration facility
garbage · refuse · medical waste · hazardous · burn pit · smokestack · emissions · pollution
thermal
Pertaining to warmth
blistering · white-hot · molten · radiant · intense · pyrotechnic
- waste incinerationBurning trash as disposal
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