verb
definition
To destroy by burning
Examples of incinerating in a Sentence
Incinerating is not a better option, because the hazardous pollutants will become air born.
The British newsprint Manufacturers Association found that recycling of newspapers would create three times as many jobs as incinerating them.
The total alkali is determined by incinerating a weighed sample in a platinum dish, dissolving the residue in water, filtering and titrating the filtrate with standard acid.
But the two substances were generally confounded as "fixed alkali" (carbonate of ammonia being "volatile alkali"), till Duhamel du Monceau in 1736 established the fact that common salt and the ashes of seaplants contain the same base as is found in natural deposits of soda salts ("mineral alkali"), and that this body is different from the "vegetable alkali" obtained by incinerating land plants or wood (pot-ashes).