Home › Words › I › incinerateincinerate/ɪnˈsɪnəɹət/incinerate means reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.incinerate is pronounced /ɪnˈsɪnəɹət/.EtymologyFrom Latin incinerātus, perfect participle of incinerō (“to burn into ashes”), from cinis (“ashes”).adjReduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.e.g.“FIRE burneth wood, making it first luminous; then black and brittle; and lastly , broken and incinerate” — 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for WilliamverbTo destroy by burning.e.g.“His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes.” — 1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., chapter 1, in Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 1:To annihilate (not necessarily by burning).Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.incinerated 87% match — Destroyed by incineration. vs incinerate →incremate 75% match — To cremate. vs incinerate →cineration 73% match — The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; incineration. vs incinerate →cremate 73% match — To burn something to ashes. vs incinerate →outburn 69% match — To burn away; be consumed by fire. vs incinerate →burninate 69% match — To destroy by fire; to burn. vs incinerate →encinder 66% match — To burn to cinders. vs incinerate →inceration 66% match — ceration. vs incinerate →