From Latin incinerātus, perfect participle of incinerō ("to burn into ashes"), from cinis ("ashes").

• (verb) IPA: /ɪnˈsɪnəɹeɪt/
• (adjective) IPA: /ɪnˈsɪnəɹət/
• (US) IPA: /ɪnˈsɪnɚeɪt/, /ɪnˈsɪnjɚeɪt/

incinerate (incinerates, present participle incinerating; simple past and past participle incinerated)

1. (transitive) To destroy by burning.
   • 1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., chapter 1, in Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC ↗, page 1 ↗:

     His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes.

• French: incinérer
• German: verbrennen
• Portuguese: incinerar
• Russian: сжига́ть
• Spanish: incinerar

incinerate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.
   • 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 William Lee […], →OCLC ↗:

     FIRE burneth wood, making it first luminous; then black and brittle; and lastly , broken and incinerate