ashing

verb

present participle of ash
as in incinerating

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ashing
  1. incinerating
  2. lighting
  3. kindling
  4. igniting
  5. torching
  6. burning
  7. charring
Verb
  • Then in 2021, the Caldor fire swept through, incinerating it all.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • Today’s severe fires can change a landscape for centuries by killing most or all of the trees, baking the soil, incinerating the seeds and leaving large open areas that cannot easily recover, Williams said.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 3 July 2026
Definition of incinerating
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  • After lighting the fire, Arrabaca also pulled out an airsoft rifle — a device commonly used in sports and recreation resembling a gun, but fires less lethal projectiles rather than bullets — and fired five to seven pellets, officials said.
    — Brynn Gingras, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
  • Howell considers lighting one of the most important and underutilized layers.
    — Oset Babür-Winter, Architectural Digest, 17 July 2026
Definition of lighting
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  • Even minor parks or embers might be carried into leaves or grass, kindling a fire that can swiftly expand.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
  • Photography arrived, kindling an enthusiasm that Baudelaire, ever the cynic, compared to a lust for pornography.
    — Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Definition of kindling
Verb
  • Wildfires have been igniting across Canada and northern Minnesota this month.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2026
  • In a rare and unusual move, launch was called off right as Super Heavy began igniting its 33 engines.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
Definition of igniting
Verb
  • The Claremont Fire in the Boise Foothills had scorched 6,800 acres of terrain by Tuesday afternoon, torching sagebrush and shrubs, wildflowers and weeds, and narrowly avoiding homes.
    — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 15 July 2026
  • But everyday people expressed their political outrage time and again, throwing rocks at and demolishing the houses of government officials, torching the king’s ships and forts and, eventually, marching to battle.
    — Robert Parkinson, The Conversation, 24 June 2026
Definition of torching
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  • The wildfires in Canada’s boreal forests are burning with greater size and intensity because of climate change, as greenhouse gas emissions from human use of fossil fuels continue to drive global warming.
    — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 17 July 2026
  • Companies burning solid waste, including garment and fabric scraps, can be fined $250.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 17 July 2026
Definition of burning
Verb
  • If hearths had been built in the cave, underlying bones would have shown evidence of charring — but not a single bone out of the 4,500 studied was burned.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • That 18,379-acre fire burned for two weeks, largely charring grass over about a third of the island.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 3 July 2026
Definition of charring
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