incinerate

Incinerate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incinerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Incinerating.]

To burn to ashes; to consume; to burn. Bacon. It is the fire only that incinerates bodies. Boyle.

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Incinerate

Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed. [Obs.] Bacon.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for incinerate; he lists it under burn.

Where he writes about it:

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