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Reducing it to ashes
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incineration
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of organic substances contained in waste materials. Incineration and other high-temperature waste treatment systems are described as " thermal treatment ". Incineration of waste materials ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of incinerate, or the state of being incinerate; cremation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from Middle French incinération (14c.), from Medieval Latin incinerationem (nominative incineratio ), noun of action from past participle stem of incinerare (see incinerate ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incineration \In*cin`er*a"tion\, n. [LL. incineratio: cf. F. incin['e]ration.] The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation. The phenix kind, Of whose incineration, There riseth a new creation. --Skelton.
Usage examples of incineration.
One person missing from the award ceremony was the publisher himself, who hadn't been especially shattered by the news of Tom Krome's probable incineration.
It was a dirty country habit to mix trash with brown coal for incineration.
Oh, I've withstood a thousand injuries that would've finished any of my ancestors -- from incinerations to smotherings to decapitations.
The first would then remove the kidneys and hand them to the second, and while the small organs went into a special container, he would remove the body, tossing it into a plastic trash barrel for later incineration.