What is another word for incinerator?

Pronunciation: [ɪnsˈɪnəɹˌe͡ɪtə] (IPA)

An incinerator is a device used to burn waste at high temperatures until it turns into ash. There are several synonyms for an incinerator, including cremator, burner, destructor, and combustor. A cremator is commonly used in funeral homes to burn human remains, while a burner refers to a device that burns fuel to produce heat or power. A destructor is a type of incinerator that is used to dispose of waste by burning it to ashes. A combustor is a device that burns fuel to generate energy or heat. These synonyms can be used interchangeably depending on the context, as they all refer to devices used to burn waste to dispose of it.

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Usage examples for Incinerator

From what I heard, they made excellent firewood in the incinerator.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
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.
"This Crowded Earth"
Robert Bloch
In connecting the smoke pipe of a heating plant, incinerator, or water heater to its flue in the chimney, the opening must be built with a fire clay tile collar and the smoke pipe should not protrude into the flue beyond the collar.
"If You're Going to Live in the Country"
Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond Huntley

Famous quotes with Incinerator

  • An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
    Thornton Wilder
  • The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
    Marya Mannes
  • He {Wilhelm Reich} had a great capacity to arouse irrational hatred obviously, and that's because his ideas were radical in the most extreme sense of the word "radical." His ideas have something to offend everybody, and he ended up becoming the only heretic in American history whose books were literally burned by the government.Reich was not only thrown in prison, but they chopped up all the scientific equipment in his laboratory with axes and burned all of his books in an incinerator.I'm not a Reichian in the sense of somebody who thinks he was the greatest scientist who ever lived and discovered the basic secrets of psychology, physics and everything else, all in one lifetime. But I think he has enough sound ideas that his unpopular ideas deserve further investigation.
    Robert Anton Wilson
  • Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?
    H. L. Mencken

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