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incinerate

/in-sin-uh-reyt/US // ɪnˈsɪn əˌreɪt //UK // (ɪnˈsɪnəˌreɪt) //

焚烧,焚化,焚毁,烧掉

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    in·cin·er·at·ed, in·cin·er·at·ing.

    • : to burn or reduce to ashes; cremate.

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Examples

  • Broiling under high heat will give you beautiful results in just a few minutes, as long as you don’t walk away and incinerate your dinner.

  • In Wuhan and elsewhere, much of the PPE and medical waste has been incinerated.

  • Once dug up, the mink will be incinerated as corporate waste.

  • It incinerates trash, then uses catalytic filtration to remove pollutants from the resulting smoke, making it the cleanest waste-to-energy facility in the world.

  • Over the next two weeks, 900 blazes incinerated six times as much land as all the state’s 2019 wildfires combined, forcing 100,000 people from their homes.

  • The Uaupes in the Amazons incinerate a corpse a month after death, pound up the ashes, and mix them with their fermented drink.

  • The soldiers, under the partial protection of the turn, could incinerate the helpless technies with little danger to themselves.

  • Also, we incinerate our victims—again, with full governmental permission.

  • To incinerate is to reduce to ashes; the sense differs little from that of cremate, but it is in less popular use.

  • Encountering another globe, our sun would doubtless produce so much heat as to incinerate all planetary life.