Meaning & use
Incinerated
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Destroyed completely by burning, typically reducing to ash.
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The old documents were incinerated to prevent sensitive information from leaking.
Firefighters said the warehouse and its contents were completely incinerated.
A note on using this word
Incinerate comes from Latin cinis, 'ashes,' the same root that gives us 'cinder' and 'cineraria.'
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