ASHING Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

ashing

verb

present participle of ash

as in incinerating

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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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Meanwhile, the La Habra Police Department posted a less flashy video to Facebook showing a drone video of a person lighting a firework in the middle of a residential street.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
Masses of young people ages 15 to 25 packed the sand around the Newport Pier, lighting off fireworks that sent sparks into crowds.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026

Definition of lighting

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The blaze remained confined to the wrecking yard property, despite briefly jumping a fence and igniting vegetation to the west.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 4 July 2026
At the party, Decastro spent over an hour shooting off fireworks in the street, eventually igniting the $400 firework.

— Seamus Bozeman, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

Definition of igniting

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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
In 1984, then unknown monologist Whoopi Goldberg premiered her provocative, thought-provoking one-woman show on Broadway, torching the rulebook of traditional solo performance in one of the most electrifying debuts of the era.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 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

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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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