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incinerator

/in-sin-uh-rey-ter/US // ɪnˈsɪn əˌreɪ tər //UK // (ɪnˈsɪnəˌreɪtə) //

焚烧炉,焚化炉,焚烧器,焚烧场

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a furnace or apparatus for burning trash, garbage, etc., to ashes.

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Examples

  • If it did, many of the public lands preserved for all of us would have long since been hacked into dune-buggy playgrounds and toxic-sludge incinerators by the yokels whose great-granddaddy ran cattle through here, blah blah blah.

  • Rumors have persisted for a century that bodies were buried in mass graves around Tulsa, burned in the city’s incinerator and disposed of in the Arkansas River or down mine shafts outside of town.

  • Promises to shut down a polluting trash incinerator and propose legislation to dramatically expand solar panels have gone unfulfiled.

  • Some of that waste is burned without proper incinerators, prompting complaints from local communities over air pollution.

  • And in Copenhagen, BIG Architects are building a new incinerator that also doubles as a wintertime ski slope.

  • What if he killed himself and there is no body--he threw himself in an incinerator?

  • Nobody told billionaires to throw their money to a person someone marvelously described as a “GOP money incinerator.”

  • One, a twin, was burned in an incinerator in the backyard after allegedly dying from respiratory problems at birth.

  • I saw him not long after you left, Your Majesty, when I went out to inspect the garbage incinerator.

  • His métier is to keep the place tidy and the incinerator fires burning.

  • Hereabouts is an incinerator, always smoking and exploding cartridges that have fallen into it.

  • Therefore, old bandages, pieces of absorbent cotton, and the like should go into the incinerator.

  • That's a kind of an incinerator, Collins—a place where the mistakes go up in smoke, at night, when there's nobody to see.