incinerates

present tense third-person singular of incinerate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of incinerates With the transformer clicked on, one associate of Blaine and Anneliese's immediately incinerates. Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026 In 2025, French firm Veolia flexed its global leadership in PFAS treatment by opening a massive plant in Delaware that filters PFAS from water and incinerates it to break the bond between fluorine and carbon, one of the strongest in chemistry. Don Steinberg, Time, 30 Apr. 2026 In Death by Lightning, his performance as Charles Guiteau incinerates any attempt to categorize the presidential assassin. Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025 No, the King of the Monsters unleashes his fiery breath on the man and incinerates him instead. Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incinerates
Verb
  • This time around, Connect 3 returns to Camp Rock for a music challenge that ignites feuds among the competitors and campers.
    Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Compressed gas ejects the missile from its vertical launch cell before its main engine ignites above the ship.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • And the Diderot-Baudelaire-Fried tree abides even as the forest burns mutely round it, match lit by Elon Musk and company.
    Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Besides losing parts of her fingers on her left hand, the child suffered a cut to her right hand and burns to her left hand and left arm, prosecutors said.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The bureau conducts its own investigation each time an agent fires a weapon.
    Isabelle Chapman, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
  • And 10 years later, DOGE actually fires hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
    Tonya Mosley, NPR, 10 Aug. 2026

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“Incinerates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incinerates. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.

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