incinerate

English

Etymology

From Latin incinerātus, perfect participle of incinerō < incinerāre (“to burn into ashes”) < cinis (“ashes”).

Verb

incinerate (third-person singular simple present incinerates, present participle incinerating, simple past and past participle incinerated)

1. (transitive) to destroy by burning

Translations

destroy by burning

• Bulgarian: изгарям (bg) (izgarjam), кремирам (kremiram), изпепелявам (bg) (izpepeljavam)
• Catalan: incinerar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 焚化 (zh) (fénhuà), 燃燒 (zh), 燃烧 (zh) (ránshāo)

• Dutch: verbranden (nl)
• Finnish: polttaa (fi); tuhkata (fi) (of the dead)
• French: incinérer (fr)
• German: verbrennen (de)
• Greek: αποτεφρώνω (el) (apotefróno)

  Ancient: ἀποτεφρόω (apotephróō)

• Japanese: 焼却する (ja) (しょうきゃくする, shōkyaku suru), 燃やす (ja) (もやす, moyasu)
• Malay: menunu
• Maori: tūmata
• Polish: spopielać impf, spopielić pf, spalać (pl) impf, spalić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: incinerar (pt)
• Russian: сжига́ть (ru) impf (sžigátʹ), сжечь (ru) pf (sžečʹ), креми́ровать (ru) impf or pf (kremírovatʹ) (cremate)
• Spanish: incinerar (es)
• Swedish: förbränna (sv)
• Turkish: yakmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: згоряти (uk) pf (zhorjaty)
• Vietnamese: thiêu (vi)
• Yiddish: פֿאַרברענען‎ (farbrenen)

Adjective

incinerate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Anagrams

• cantinière, creatinine, itinerance

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Latin

Verb

incinerāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of incinerō