ashed

verb

past tense of ash
as in incinerated

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ashed
  1. incinerated
  2. lit
  3. ignited
  4. kindled
  5. torched
  6. immolated
  7. burned
  8. charred
Verb
  • Another is to pay fishers to catch inedible ones like the puffer fish so they can be incinerated.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026
  • In 2020, the wildfires that incinerated nearly half the island took the Southern Ocean Lodge, too.
    — Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 23 July 2026
Definition of incinerated
Verb
  • Harbaugh lit one more friendly fire under his team at the end of Thursday’s jog-through practice.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The Plan Commission report said while, due to the nature of the development, the gas station would be brightly lit, the convenience store building and a heavily landscaped area to the west would block the impact of light for neighbors.
    — Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of lit
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  • The loss later ignited the feud between Simone Biles and Riley Gaines last June after Gaines posted about the championship that same day.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Getz enjoys getting brotherly advice from Hoyer, who executed his own semi-rebuild in 2021 and worked under Theo Epstein on the 2012 Cubs rebuild that ignited the trend across baseball.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of ignited
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  • As the current Cartoonist Laureate of the state, she has been highly engaged in Vermont culture and history, and says her interest in this couple was kindled by Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup, director of Vermont Humanities, who encouraged her to tell their story.
    — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • The faith of these settlers kindled a fervent Protestant piety, found in the Great Revival of the Ohio Valley frontier.
    — Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 8 June 2026
Definition of kindled
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  • Angry crowds have torched Ebola treatment centers, stormed hospitals to retrieve relatives’ bodies and attacked teams carrying out safe burials.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Free-agent addition Kindle Vildor and former seventh-rounder Kobee Minor, who have been torched at times in camp, were first off the bench Thursday.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of torched
Verb
  • For instance, in Atlanta a man self- immolated in front of the Israeli embassy.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
Definition of immolated
Verb
  • Laurie Allen left her home in Nine Mile Falls, a community north of Spokane, last weekend, fleeing with her husband, dog and two kittens as a wildfire burned a short distance away.
    — Jamie Stengle, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Stop planning for the mirror image, because Beijing burned the mirror.
    — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of burned
Verb
  • His attorneys said the blast melted decorative lighting on his balcony, charred the railing and melted sections of artificial turf.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The burn area is just east of Lost City and includes Mount Ararat as well as portions of the burn scar from the 2020 Walker Fire, which charred 1,455 acres.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of charred
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“Ashed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ashed. Accessed 10 Aug. 2026.

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