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incinerate

verb as in reduce to ashes

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Broiling under high heat will give you beautiful results in just a few minutes, as long as you don’t walk away and incinerate your dinner.

From Eater

In Wuhan and elsewhere, much of the PPE and medical waste has been incinerated.

Once dug up, the mink will be incinerated as corporate waste.

From Fortune

It incinerates trash, then uses catalytic filtration to remove pollutants from the resulting smoke, making it the cleanest waste-to-energy facility in the world.

Over the next two weeks, 900 blazes incinerated six times as much land as all the state’s 2019 wildfires combined, forcing 100,000 people from their homes.

The Uaupes in the Amazons incinerate a corpse a month after death, pound up the ashes, and mix them with their fermented drink.

The soldiers, under the partial protection of the turn, could incinerate the helpless technies with little danger to themselves.

Also, we incinerate our victims—again, with full governmental permission.

To incinerate is to reduce to ashes; the sense differs little from that of cremate, but it is in less popular use.

Encountering another globe, our sun would doubtless produce so much heat as to incinerate all planetary life.

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to incinerate, such as: consume, cremate, ignite, scorch, torch, and blaze.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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