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View synonyms for incinerator

incinerator

[ in-sin-uh-rey-ter ]

noun

  1. a furnace or apparatus for burning trash, garbage, etc., to ashes.


incinerator

/ ɪnˈsɪnəˌreɪtə /

noun

  1. a furnace or apparatus for incinerating something, esp refuse


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Word History and Origins

Origin of incinerator1

First recorded in 1880–85; incinerate + -or 2

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Example Sentences

If it did, many of the public lands preserved for all of us would have long since been hacked into dune-buggy playgrounds and toxic-sludge incinerators by the yokels whose great-granddaddy ran cattle through here, blah blah blah.

Rumors have persisted for a century that bodies were buried in mass graves around Tulsa, burned in the city’s incinerator and disposed of in the Arkansas River or down mine shafts outside of town.

Promises to shut down a polluting trash incinerator and propose legislation to dramatically expand solar panels have gone unfulfiled.

Some of that waste is burned without proper incinerators, prompting complaints from local communities over air pollution.

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And in Copenhagen, BIG Architects are building a new incinerator that also doubles as a wintertime ski slope.

What if he killed himself and there is no body--he threw himself in an incinerator?

Nobody told billionaires to throw their money to a person someone marvelously described as a “GOP money incinerator.”

One, a twin, was burned in an incinerator in the backyard after allegedly dying from respiratory problems at birth.

I saw him not long after you left, Your Majesty, when I went out to inspect the garbage incinerator.

His métier is to keep the place tidy and the incinerator fires burning.

Hereabouts is an incinerator, always smoking and exploding cartridges that have fallen into it.

Therefore, old bandages, pieces of absorbent cotton, and the like should go into the incinerator.

That's a kind of an incinerator, Collins—a place where the mistakes go up in smoke, at night, when there's nobody to see.

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