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incinerated

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verb

past tense of incinerate

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Recent Examples of incinerated
Adjective
Grace, her white lace dress blackened with blood, is smoking a cigarette outside of an incinerated mansion that belongs to her in-laws, the Le Domas, who are all dead. Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026 Know More Initially founded in 2012 with a $5 million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation, Nautilus incinerated cash, sparing no expense in its pursuit of bringing resplendent literary science to the reading public. Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026
Verb
Another is to pay fishers to catch inedible ones like the puffer fish so they can be incinerated. 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 Kathleen insists that Lukas was likely incinerated, along with all of the other corpses that piled up in the Down Deep during the rebellion. Noel Murray, Vulture, 17 July 2026 Garbage was often incinerated rather than transported to landfills. Rebecca Florsheim, STAT, 17 July 2026 The deaths come after wildfires have incinerated parts of the Southwest, with fires entering Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico, according to the paper. Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026 Of that unwanted apparel—about 13 million tons in 2018—85 percent is annually sent to a landfill or incinerated. Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026 Researchers say the toxic chromium probably came from the myriad household items incinerated in the fires such as paints, electronics and auto parts. Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026 The global plastic waste trade Large amounts of plastic waste are shipped around the world – some to be recycled and much to simply be disposed of in landfills or incinerated. Ellen M. Considine, The Conversation, 2 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incinerated
Adjective
  • Designed to function like an ice resurfacer, BurnBot lays down pre-burned paths that define the boundaries of burn areas.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Yeager said none of the non-burned areas of the facility have been turned on again.
    Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • 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
Adjective
  • If possible, wait until the extreme temperatures cool to apply pesticides that can cause scorched leaves.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 20 June 2026
  • Later the day of the arson, a young man with scorched hands faced an FBI agent and others investigating the crime.
    Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 4 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Over the weekend, the Houthis fired missiles at two Saudi oil complexes on the Red Sea coast.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Police said at the time that multiple suspects arrived in a Chevy Equinox, and a passenger in the car fired a pistol before the driver got out and sprayed the residence with bullets from a rifle.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Archaeologists recently uncovered charred wooden beams in Jerusalem dating back roughly 2,600 years — likely remnants of the destruction of Solomon's Temple.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • For bourbon to be classified as bourbon, it must be aged in brand-new, charred oak barrels, and that charring produces a lot of these flavors and aromas as well.
    Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Garate serves that barbacoa—cooked low and slow with Puerto Rican aromatics—over a crispy corn tostada topped with crema and pickled onions.
    Claudia Alarcón, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • Since opening in 1988, the adults-only restaurant has earned a loyal following for its famously smoky Oysters Gilhooley, cooked over pecan wood, and its ever-changing catch of the day.
    Gabi De la Rosa, Southern Living, 29 July 2026
Adjective
  • Pan seared salmon is lush with a creamy radish sauce and pine nuts.
    Connie Ogle July 31, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
  • For fish lovers both a pan-seared salmon and trout almondine are on offer.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

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“Incinerated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incinerated. Accessed 7 Aug. 2026.

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