incinerate
verb
Examples of incinerate in a Sentence
Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
Two other vehicles in the convoy were incinerated and mangled, indicating multiple hits.
—Ashraf Khalil, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2024
Later, the set was recreated on a sound stage, and incinerated.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 23 Mar. 2024
Missiles and rockets have since incinerated most of his coops.
—Isabel Kershner Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
Their possessions, including their identification papers, had been incinerated.
—Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
Tyler McCain and his family are among those who frantically evacuated their homes on Tuesday – only to return to find their life’s possessions had been incinerated.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
His right foot was missing — investigators determined it had been incinerated by the blast.
—Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
Then, in the spring of 2014, a blaze that locals call the Mother’s Day fire incinerated about 225 more.
—Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Medieval Latin incineratus, past participle of incinerare, from Latin in- + ciner-, cinis ashes; akin to Greek konis dust, ashes
1555, in the meaning defined above
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