immolate

In Barnhill’s case, a dragon periodically appears to immolate an idyllic town called Stone-in-the-Glen, leaving the villagers reliant on its dragon-hunting mayor to keep the creature at bay.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022

The Mysore masala dosa, as you’d expect, comes densely packed with a turmeric-tinted potato filling ignited with a chile-garlic chutney that threatens to immolate the dish.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2017

Holt, now 56, is being called in to smooth over a crisis again, because no one at NBC imagined Williams' career at the network would immolate the way it did.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2015

Then her eyes flash with a look that could almost immolate you, and she gives you a tongue lashing that stings for days.

From MSNBC ● Feb. 11, 2015

It was probably just peaceful despair and relief at final and complete abnegation, now that Judith was about to immolate the frustration’s vicarious recompense into the living fairy tale.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner

Social media runs on the righteous anger such betrayals can activate and, along with its more toxic cousins, that anger immolates most attempts at nuance.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026

Hoping that she can learn the Fireman's secret to Dragonscale before she immolates or has her baby, Harper sets out into the New England forest with her rescuer.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2016

"Who will tell me what it is?" said the Count; "who will exhibit it to my eyes? who will show me the phantom which robs me of name and fame, and secretly immolates my honor?"

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various

Speak, then; let me at least know the name of him for whom she thus immolates herself.

From The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green

When society has too great needs, it is absorbed with the present, sacrifices to it the conquests of the past, immolates to it the future.

From The Simple Life by Mary Louise Hendee

And “Nothing Compares,” which debuted at Sundance, is bringing O’Connor’s story to a generation of viewers who weren’t yet alive when she immolated her career at 30 Rock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2022

It gets weirder: Some giant planets that spark star-killing ejections may also bring new worlds into existence as they are immolated in the stellar furnace.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2022

My love of all things charred, blackened, browned and otherwise immolated runs deep.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2022

Consider Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker reacting to the sight of his immolated family as though he’s suppressing a fart; Alec Guinness forcing himself through the motions as Obi Wan; Hayden Christensen in general.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2015

She thought harsh things of her headstrong, single-minded mother, and yearned over this poor, ignorant, immolated young creature who seemed destined to waste her loveliness on those who could not value it.

From Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

She was spicy without immolating her targets, respectful without feeling phony or fawning.

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2025

She defies the gods, falls in love with a heroic dragon-slayer and ultimately redeems the world through love before immolating herself.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2019

We have to find a way of standing up for our principles without immolating ourselves in front of everybody.”

From Time ● Sep. 24, 2013

As a result, the practice of sati – or widows immolating themselves on their husbands’ funeral pyres – was abolished in Goa 200 years before the British banned it in the rest of India.

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2011

She was no longer a pale, useless, discontented girl, cooped up in an airless London house with two self-centred, elder women whom she secretly despised for immolating their sister.

From Notwithstanding by Mary Cholmondeley