incinerate
verb
in·cin·er·ate
in-ˈsi-nə-ˌrāt 
incinerated; incinerating
: to cause to burn to ashes
Examples of incinerate in a Sentence
The waste is incinerated in a large furnace.
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Soon, the news broke: The bodies belonged to Langlois and Marchand, and they had been shot before the car was incinerated.
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Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2024
Between the lines: Either way, billions of dollars in capital is almost certain to be incinerated.
—Kia Kokalitcheva, Axios, 12 July 2024
What this means is that even in geographies where separation collection is in place, more than half and as much as 86 percent of textile products made available on the market are discarded as part of the municipal solid waste stream, following which they are either incinerated or landfilled.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
The Camp Fire nearly incinerated the town of Paradise in 2018, killing 85 people.
—Niha Masih, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
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Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2024
Between the lines: Either way, billions of dollars in capital is almost certain to be incinerated.
—Kia Kokalitcheva, Axios, 12 July 2024
What this means is that even in geographies where separation collection is in place, more than half and as much as 86 percent of textile products made available on the market are discarded as part of the municipal solid waste stream, following which they are either incinerated or landfilled.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
The Camp Fire nearly incinerated the town of Paradise in 2018, killing 85 people.
—Niha Masih, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
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incinerate
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in·cin·er·ate
in-ˈsin-ə-ˌrāt
incinerated; incinerating
: to cause to burn to ashes
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