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Sichuan peppercorns that paralyze the lips and turn speech to a burr, and Thai bird chilies that immolate everything they touch.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2017

Often the famous will immolate all on their own with one ill-considered remark or tweet.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2015

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

Immolā′tion, act of immolating: a sacrifice; Imm′olator, one who immolates or offers sacrifice.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

There is no dramatic logic whatever in the recurrence of this theme to express the transport in which Brynhild immolates herself.

From The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring by Bernard Shaw

She immolates herself for the suffering one, cares for him and saves him, then lays down her own life.

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William Joseph Long

Bankman-Fried’s personal fortune has been immolated over only a few days of turmoil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 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

Among the innumerable productions of Stockdale, was a “History of Gibraltar,” which might have been interesting, from his having resided there: in a moment of despair, like Medea, he immolated his unfortunate offspring.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

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

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2025

Yes, Emma Stone, Ms. Miller’s immediate predecessor in the role, was sensational, an immolating fireball of neurosis and vanity.

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2015

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

And Henry later told us, 'God only knows what His Holiness thought, seeing the American Secretary of Defense immolating himself, and the entire American party applauding the fact.'

From Time ● Feb. 4, 2010

Next they stooped down, and drank a little water from the spring; then, immolating to God the sacrifice of praise, passed the night watching.

From The Hermits by Charles Kingsley