incinerate
verb [often passive] (formal)Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they incinerate | |
he / she / it incinerates | |
past simple incinerated | |
past participle incinerated | |
-ing form incinerating |
to burn something, especially waste material, until it is completely destroyed 把…烧成灰烬;焚毁 - be incinerated
Most of the waste is incinerated. 大多数垃圾都是焚化处理的。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryIncinerate is used with these nouns as the object:- waste
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from medieval Latin incinerat- ‘burnt to ashes’, from the verb incinerare, from in- ‘into, towards’ + cinis, ciner- ‘ashes’.- be incinerated