incineration

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

incineration
    n 1: the act of burning something completely; reducing it to
         ashes

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Incineration \In*cin`er*a"tion\, n. [LL. incineratio: cf. F.
   incin['e]ration.]
   The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated;
   cremation.
   [1913 Webster]

         The phenix kind,
         Of whose incineration,
         There riseth a new creation.             --Skelton.
   Incipience

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

37 Moby Thesaurus words for "incineration":
      blazing, blistering, branding, burning, calcination, carbonization,
      cauterization, cautery, cineration, combustion, concremation,
      cracking, cremation, cupellation, deflagration,
      destructive distillation, distillation, distilling, flaming,
      funeral pile, oxidation, oxidization, parching, pyre, pyrolysis,
      reduction to ashes, refining, scorching, scorification, searing,
      self-immolation, singeing, smelting, suttee, the stake,
      thermogenesis, vesication

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