incinerate

You probably aren’t rich or well-connected enough to have a 24 year-old incinerate your savings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

There’s “torch,” at the high end of high intensity, when flames rise into the forest crown and incinerate everything.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

It is promoting waste-to-energy sites that incinerate garbage and produce electricity, with 34 planned within two years.

From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026

If anyone in crypto billed themselves as the kind of actors who wouldn’t incinerate, misallocate, or steal customers’ money, it was Bankman-Fried and FTX.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2023

Here the prefix in is for emphasis, as in words like incinerate, incoming and intense.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

The machine incinerates the feathers at extremely high temperatures, measuring the emitted mercury.

From Reuters ● Aug. 5, 2023

Then a specialist smelting firm retrieves around 90% of the metals in the phone - a process which incinerates the plastic parts.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2021

Even now, he said, he has the sort of high metabolism that incinerates calories.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2021

The earth is currently hurtling through a mass of dust and debris from the 3200 Phaethon asteroid, producing a meteor shower visible to people on both hemispheres as the detritus incinerates in the atmosphere.

From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2018

Springs of ancient wrath spray and fling its repressed fury , heeding not whom or what it incinerates when gravity reclaims lava?s spurts .

From NATURAE by Dom

There’s Spokane, the growing eastern Washington city of 230,000 where fires this summer incinerated more than 800 structures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Earlier this week, an incinerated roe deer was seen lying on the blackened ground.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Globally, it's estimated that 300,000 disposable nappies are sent to landfill or incinerated every minute, leading to environmental issues as many contain plastics and synthetic materials and can take hundreds of years to decompose.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

The canisters, which can explode when heated or crushed, are damaging furnaces in energy recovery facilities, where treated waste is incinerated and converted into energy.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

S'pose Dad'd been mangled by a juggernaut on the M5 and the police only had this office number ’cause all his other I.D.'d got incinerated?

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Flames have torn through vast swathes of forest in both countries, incinerating properties and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

"By reusing plastic waste that is already in Hawaii, we can reduce the environmental and economic impacts of transporting waste plastics from the islands, incinerating it or dumping it in Hawaii's overflowing landfills."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026

After all, the “Toy Story” franchise has had pure villains before — one of them almost got away with incinerating the toys for good!

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

Politicians will be tempted to let inflation whittle them down instead, incinerating the value of very long-term bonds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Then, just as in her nightmares, the Mark of Athena burned across the walls, incinerating the spiders until the room was empty except for the smell of sickly sweet ashes.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan