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to incinerate

verb/ĩsinɨˈɾaɾ/medium

in·ci·ne·rar

Definition

To reduce to ashes by burning; to burn completely.
The municipality will incinerate the hazardous hospital waste.
They decided to incinerate the confidential files to prevent information leaks.
Common collocations
to incinerate wasteto incinerate documentsto incinerate corpses

Etymology

Do latim 'incinerare', de 'in-' (em) + 'cinis, cineris' (cinza).

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