incinerate

• Réduire complètement quelque chose en cendres par le feu, en particulier dans un four ou un brasier.

To burn something completely to ashes, especially in a furnace or fire.

1. Reduce to ashesB2formal

   To be completely burned until nothing remains but ash.

   Réduire en cendres

   • The old documents were incinerated in a controlled fire.
   • The building incinerated within minutes due to the intense heat.
   • All organic waste will incinerate in the high-temperature furnace.

   Synonymescalcinecarbonizeconsumecremate

2. Cause to burn completelyB2formal

   To deliberately set something on fire until it is destroyed.

   incinérer

   • The authorities incinerated the confiscated drugs.
   • They incinerated the hazardous medical waste to prevent contamination.
   • The factory incinerates its chemical byproducts to reduce pollution.

   Synonymesburnconsumecrematetorch

   Antonymesdousedrenchextinguishquenchsaturatesmother