kilned

verb

past tense of kiln
as in ashed

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  1. incinerated
  2. lit
  3. ignited
  4. kindled
  5. torched
  6. baked
  7. charred
  8. inflamed
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  • Crystal’s house at 860 Chautauqua Boulevard in Pacific Palisades was incinerated in the wildfire of early January 2025.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The Food and Drug Administration recommends disposing of drugs by dropping them off at a take-back location or by mailing them using a prepaid envelope that is delivered to a facility where the drugs are incinerated.
    — Sunny Linnebur, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026
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  • The 3-foot motion activated lighted Rocker Skeleton animatronic pairs with last year’s The Party Skeleton, designed by Lowe’s employee Amanual Coleman of Charlotte.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 28 Oct. 2026
  • What Snyder and his peers have built has lit a fire that’s drawing in a growing fandom.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of lit
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  • Sources told the outlet that Smalls is now giving mutual friends an ultimatum to choose sides, which has ignited a bitter war within the VS circle.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The decision has ignited sharp debate across the county, pitting concerns over public safety against warnings that the policy criminalizes homelessness and poverty.
    — La'Tasha Givens, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of ignited
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  • Now that fall is on the horizon, hope has been kindled for abundant rainfall.
    — Robert Klose, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2026
  • As the current Cartoonist Laureate of the state, she has been highly engaged in Vermont culture and history, and says her interest in this couple was kindled by Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup, director of Vermont Humanities, who encouraged her to tell their story.
    — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Definition of kindled
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  • Shattered glass littered sidewalks after rioters smashed and looted thousands of shops, torched cars and buildings, and attacked police, who fired tear gas and water cannons.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 26 Oct. 2026
  • White militias destroyed their homes, torched their food supplies, and slaughtered them outright so routinely that a secondary economy of kidnappers sprang up to sell the survivors, children and adults alike, into servitude.
    — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of torched
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  • Inside the venue, each place setting was adorned in part by one of the nearly 200 cake pops sized, measured and baked by organizing committee member Shaikh, who not only committed the week prior to bake for the ball, but also enjoyed developing a sisterhood with the rest of the organizers.
    — Mariana Navarrete Villegas, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2026
Definition of baked
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  • Police on Tuesday arrested a suspect in the arson attack that charred the historic city hall in Limoges, in central France, Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said, adding that the person may not have acted alone.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The South Fork and Salt fires charred the landscape, leaving soils that didn’t easily absorb water.
    — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of charred
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  • But the eleventh-hour blitz of No On 3 ads that Keep Florida Clean funded, warning of the greed of Big Weed, inflamed voters’ private worries of societal decay.
    — Christopher Spata, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The news has inflamed debate over the British government’s unprecedented decision to use terrorism powers to ban a group primarily known for property damage and disruption.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of inflamed
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