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Incineration

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of incinerating or reducing to ashes by combustion.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes

Word Usage

"I can only assume that this represents a further entrenchment within the permanent North British government, even to the extent of denying that incinerators emit CO2, pretty much along the same lines of the expressed attitude of waste disposal companies that incineration is a liability-free method of waste disposal."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

burning combustion

Hyponym

cremation

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

cremation

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

pasteurization cremation fag-end mandioc cementation