incinerate

verb

in·cin·er·ate | \in-ˈsi-nə-ˌrāt

incinerated; incinerating

Definition of incinerate

transitive verb

: to cause to burn to ashes

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Examples of incinerate in a Sentence

The waste is incinerated in a large furnace.

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The house was incinerated in a fast-moving wildfire Friday that destroyed nine other homes; the blaze was 80 percent contained Sunday. — Washington Post, "With ring found in ashes of burned home, man proposes again," 8 July 2018 In Santa Barbara County, nearly two dozen homes were incinerated in a wildfire that began Saturday, once again harrowing an area ravaged in the last year by fires and then mudslides that killed 21 people. — Tim Arango, New York Times, "Record Heat in Southern California, and an Ominous Start to Wildfire Season," 7 July 2018 Rockefeller Center would be an unrecognizable snarl of steel and concrete, its titanic statue of Prometheus — eight tons of bronze and plaster clad in gold — completely incinerated. — Daily Intelligencer, "This Is What a Nuclear Bomb Looks Like," 12 June 2018 Everything was incinerated in the pits, say soldiers, including plastics, batteries, appliances, medicine, dead animals and even human waste. — Perry Chiaramonte | Fox News, Fox News, "Lawmakers demand answers at hearing over how VA is helping tens of thousands of burn pit victims," 7 June 2018 The need to maintain military secrecy prevented civilian firefighters from entering the scene, and fire leaped from building to building, incinerating most of the base. — Lucy Cooke, ajc, "US military is interested in bats as possible defenders against bioweapons," 3 July 2018 The need to maintain military secrecy prevented civilian firefighters from entering the scene, and fire leaped from building to building, incinerating most of the base. — Lucy Cooke, Washington Post, "The batty, explosive history of bats in the military — and why this new idea just might work," 2 July 2018 On another wall are peaceful landscape paintings made of unusually chunky acrylic — incinerated canvas ash and fragments are mixed into it. — Kevin Fagan, SFChronicle.com, "Wine Country artists find new life, inspiration in the wreckage of studios," 9 July 2018 The house was incinerated in a fast-moving wildfire Friday that destroyed nine other homes; the blaze was 80 percent contained Sunday. — CBS News, "Man finds rings in ashes of home burned by wildfire, proposes again," 9 July 2018

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