as in to ignite
to burn (something) completely
The waste is incinerated in a large furnace.
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Recent Examples of incinerate
Catch up quick: After promising to treat property crime targeting Tesla vehicles and facilities as domestic terrorism, Trump's Justice Department charged three people on Thursday with using Molotov cocktails to incinerate cars and showrooms.
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Ben Berkowitz, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
At smaller operations, birds’ carcasses are often incinerated.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 9 Mar. 2025
Compare that with the Woolsey Fire, which in 2018 roared through roughly the same terrain, incinerating 97,000 acres and destroying 1,600 structures.
—Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2025
Or the Camp Fire in 2018 that incinerated Paradise, Calif, a town surrounded by forests.
—Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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Ben Berkowitz, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
At smaller operations, birds’ carcasses are often incinerated.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 9 Mar. 2025
Compare that with the Woolsey Fire, which in 2018 roared through roughly the same terrain, incinerating 97,000 acres and destroying 1,600 structures.
—Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2025
Or the Camp Fire in 2018 that incinerated Paradise, Calif, a town surrounded by forests.
—Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incinerate
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McIntire was arrested in Massachusetts last month and faces federal charges in Missouri for allegedly using a homemade incendiary device to ignite the two electric vehicles on March 17.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
2 May 2025
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Mars enters Leo on the 18th, which can ignite your personal power and give you the drive to make things happen in your external reality.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 May 2025
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The pair, who met as college undergrads, both burned with idealism and recognized their privilege could be leveraged for a game-changing idea.—
Carole Horst,
Variety,
13 Sep. 2023
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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation promotes circular fashion and says that, in the United States, an amount of clothing equal to a garbage truck is ferried to landfills or burned every second.—
Neeti Mehra,
Treehugger,
13 Sep. 2023
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Trump has also fired tens of thousands of probationary workers or staffers at agencies such as Health and Human Services.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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While the mice were running along the track, brain cells that control spatial encoding were firing.—
Avery Hurt,
Discover Magazine,
2 May 2025
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Of Père-Lachaise's 3,000 new occupants per year, nearly 2,000 are cremated in the cemetery's crematorium.—
Heller McAlpin,
NPR,
28 Apr. 2025
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Within two days, Stacy’s body was cremated, and Joshua filed a claim for her $250,000 life insurance policy. Tipped off by Stacy’s mother, Suzie Robinson, that Joshua was having a relationship with a coworker, insurance investigators launched a probe into Stacy’s death.—
Christine Pelisek,
People.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires reduced more than 15,000 structures to ash in a matter of days.—
Santina Contreras,
The Conversation,
2 Apr. 2025
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Other ways to reuse the tree include: Burning the wood to ash your garden. Making firewood.—
Kaycee Sloan,
The Enquirer,
23 Dec. 2024
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Ingredients Crushed ice 1 cup water 1 cup sugar CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER 1 bunch mint Bourbon (Prep time: 3 minutes; cook time: 3 minutes; servings: 3) Directions 1.—
Peter Burke,
FOXNews.com,
3 May 2025
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Gus Jaubert, a Frenchman who cooked for Gen. John Hunt Morgan’s Confederate raiders, supposedly fed hundreds at these events and became known as the father of Kentucky burgoo (his kettle pots are still on display at Buffalo Trace Distillery).—
Brian Bennett,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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“Incinerate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incinerate. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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