as in to ignite
to burn (something) completely
The waste is incinerated in a large furnace.
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Recent Examples of incinerate
The impact incinerated everything in the vicinity, and sparked massive fires.
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Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Hazardous waste was being dumped into landfills along with household garbage and was often incinerated, which in turn sent the toxic materials into the atmosphere.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2025
Catch up quick: After promising to treat property crime targeting Tesla vehicles and facilities as domestic terrorism, Trump's Justice Department charged three people on Thursday with using Molotov cocktails to incinerate cars and showrooms.
—Ben Berkowitz, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
At smaller operations, birds’ carcasses are often incinerated.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 9 Mar. 2025
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Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Hazardous waste was being dumped into landfills along with household garbage and was often incinerated, which in turn sent the toxic materials into the atmosphere.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2025
Catch up quick: After promising to treat property crime targeting Tesla vehicles and facilities as domestic terrorism, Trump's Justice Department charged three people on Thursday with using Molotov cocktails to incinerate cars and showrooms.
—Ben Berkowitz, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
At smaller operations, birds’ carcasses are often incinerated.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 9 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incinerate
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Starship ignited its Raptor engines Monday morning on a test stand near SpaceX's Starbase launch facility in South Texas.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2025
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Tatum ignited that surge with a 3-pointer – part of a 20-point first half for the Celtics star – and Kristaps Porzingis helped maintain it with two offensive rebounds, a putback tip-in and a steal under Boston’s basket.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
13 May 2025
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The pair, who met as college undergrads, both burned with idealism and recognized their privilege could be leveraged for a game-changing idea.—
Carole Horst,
Variety,
13 Sep. 2023
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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation promotes circular fashion and says that, in the United States, an amount of clothing equal to a garbage truck is ferried to landfills or burned every second.—
Neeti Mehra,
Treehugger,
13 Sep. 2023
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In the collider, lead ions are fired at each other at nearly the speed of light, either hitting one another or passing close to others.—
George Petras,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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Ryan Gerard fired an opening 66 in his first career PGA Championship round.—
Justin Ray,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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Mahdi's body was cremated, preventing a second autopsy, Weiss said.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 May 2025
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Lee said the remains of dead North Korean soldiers were cremated in Kursk before being shipped back home.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires reduced more than 15,000 structures to ash in a matter of days.—
Santina Contreras,
The Conversation,
2 Apr. 2025
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Other ways to reuse the tree include: Burning the wood to ash your garden. Making firewood.—
Kaycee Sloan,
The Enquirer,
23 Dec. 2024
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The girls cooked lunch over campfires, pumped the water from wells and took younger girls on their first overnight campout.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
18 May 2025
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If cooking a whole lobster, instead of using fish stock for the aioli, after removing the meat from the shell, boil the lobster shells in a pot of water for about 5 minutes.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
18 May 2025
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“Incinerate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incinerate. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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