immolate

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

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

Behold how she immolates herself upon the altar of friendship!

From Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls by Julia Augusta Schwartz

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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2022

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

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2022

Am I hopeful, as a believer who prays Smith will rise, stronger and wiser, from the ashes of everything he immolated Sunday night?

From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2022

Much more than just a micro-budget car film, Pit Stop is a devastating portrait of the empty shell that’s left behind when every last remnant of human connection is immolated at the altar of winning.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2020

On the throne of immolated love He has founded a kingdom that will never end.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier

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

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2025

It can feel both misty and assertive, partly because of the way his effects pedals create something hot and threatening, as if he’s immolating his own notes as soon as they arrive.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2018

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 immolating herself just now, as was everybody else in the suburban town, on the altar of the Clifford-Jordan bridal party.

From The Brown Study by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond