Incineration

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of incinerating or reducing to ashes by combustion.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation.
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  • noun. the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes
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    "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."
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    cremation  
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