incinerate
verb
in·cin·er·ate
in-ˈsi-nə-ˌrāt 
incinerated; incinerating
: to cause to burn to ashes
Examples of incinerate in a Sentence
The waste is incinerated in a large furnace.
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Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 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
In the past decade, California’s most destructive fires incinerated more than fifty-seven thousand homes, commercial properties, and other structures.
—Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
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Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 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
In the past decade, California’s most destructive fires incinerated more than fifty-seven thousand homes, commercial properties, and other structures.
—Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
Advertisement If Earth is ultimately doomed—if the sun will begin to incinerate us in about a billion years—Mars wouldn’t do as a safe harbor, since that planet would be put to the torch as well.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Incinerate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incinerate. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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incinerate
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in·cin·er·ate
in-ˈsin-ə-ˌrāt
incinerated; incinerating
: to cause to burn to ashes
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