incinerator
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of incinerator
First recorded in 1880–85; incinerate + -or 2
Example Sentences
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Houses in L.A. and parts of Orange County had backyard incinerators.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s forgotten in a bin or an incinerator.
From Literature
In time, investigators found Mrs. Scott’s dentures and eyeglasses behind the backyard incinerator … but no body.
From Los Angeles Times
The project comes around a decade after the entire archive at St Mark's was nearly consigned to the hospital incinerator.
From Barron's
They escaped the evil clutches of the gross neighbor kid next door, fled a toy collector’s plastic prison and even avoided an incinerator in one scene that scarred countless children around the world.
From Salon
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