Synonyms for incinerate
ɪnˈsɪn əˌreɪtin·cin·er·ate

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1. incinerate

   To burn is to subject to the action of fire, or of intense heat so as to effect either partial change or complete combustion; as, to burn wood in the fire; to burn one's hand on a hot stove; the sun burns the face. One brands with a hot iron, but cauterizes with some corrosive substance, as silver nitrate. Cremate is now used specifically for consuming a dead body by intense heat. To incinerate is to reduce to ashes; the sense differs little from that of cremate, but it is in less popular use. To kindle is to set on fire, as if with a candle; ignite is the more learned and scientific word for the same thing, extending even to the heating of metals to a state of incandescence without burning. To scorch and to singe are superficial, and to char usually so. Both kindle and burn have an extensive figurative use; as, to kindle strife; to burn with wrath, love, devotion, curiosity. Compare LIGHT.

   Synonyms:
   blaze, brand, burn, cauterize, char, consume, cremate, flame, flash, ignite, kindle, scorch, set fire to, set on fire, singe

   Antonyms:
   cool, extinguish, put out, smother, stifle, subdue

   Preposition:
   To burn in the fire, burn with fire; burn to the ground, burn to ashes; burn through the skin, or the roof; burn into the soil, etc.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 3 votes

1. incinerateverb

   become reduced to ashes

   "The paper incinerated quickly"

   Synonyms:
   burn

2. burn, incinerateverb

   cause to undergo combustion

   "burn garbage"; "The car burns only Diesel oil"

   Synonyms:
   sting, burn down, burn off, cauterise, fire, burn up, burn, cauterize, glow, sunburn, combust, cut, bite

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1. • Burn Up
   • Change Integrity

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. incinerateverb

   Synonyms:
   burn to ashes

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "incinerate":

   burn

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1. President Biden:

   These burn pits that incinerate waste, the waste of war, medical and hazardous material, jet fuel and so much more, and they come home, many of the fittest and best-trained warriors in the world, never the same, headaches, numbness, dizziness, a cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin.