incinerator
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of incinerator
First recorded in 1880–85; incinerate + -or 2
Vocabulary lists containing incinerator
Example Sentences
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They received around 120 million euros at current exchange rates for the Tirana incinerator.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
An incinerator scheme to help clean up the ecological catastrophe turned out to be a vast multi-million-dollar scam that included a "ghost" incinerator for the capital Tirana that was never built.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Jim has lived in Sutton for nearly 20 years, about 15 minutes from the Beddington incinerator.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Acting like a giant incinerator, the spinning flames destroy many of the particles responsible for dense smoke plumes.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
Jerry G. carried the cross downstairs, heaved it back into the station wagon, and drove a half-mile south through sagebrush land to the dude ranch incinerator.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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