Incineration

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incineration \In*cin`er*a"tion\, n. [LL. incineratio: cf. F.
     incin['e]ration.]
     The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated;
     cremation.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           The phenix kind,
           Of whose incineration,
           There riseth a new creation.             --Skelton.
     Incipience

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "incineration":
     blazing, blistering, branding, burning, calcination, carbonization,
     cauterization, cautery, cineration, combustion, concremation,
     cracking, cremation, cupellation, deflagration,
     destructive distillation, distillation, distilling, flaming,
     funeral pile, oxidation, oxidization, parching, pyre, pyrolysis,
     reduction to ashes, refining, scorching, scorification, searing,
     self-immolation, singeing, smelting, suttee, the stake,
     thermogenesis, vesication