cremating

verb

present participle of cremate
as in incinerating

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  1. incinerating
  2. igniting
  3. torching
  4. kindling
Verb
  • Season 2 saw Aemond purposefully incinerating his brother, leaving him badly burned, and decimating the Riverlands while on Vhagar.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 20 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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  • 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
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  • 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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  • 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
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