incinerate
verb
in·cin·er·ate
in-ˈsi-nə-ˌrāt 
incinerated; incinerating
: to cause to burn to ashes
Examples of incinerate in a Sentence
The waste is incinerated in a large furnace.
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Instead of becoming diesel fuel, for about a year Boise’s orange bags had been incinerated to fuel concrete factories.
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Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 5 June 2024
Its main building had been incinerated by airstrikes, while a film archive dating back to the 1940s, one of the largest in Africa, had been blown open by gunfire.
—Declan Walsh Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 5 June 2024
History was ruptured in the 1950s; how could life go on after the revelation of World War II death camps and the creation of a bomb that could incinerate a city’s population with a single blast?
—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
They can be made into biomass fuels and incinerated, although some pollutants such as metals gather in the ash, which must be disposed of.
—Erica Gies, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2018
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Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 5 June 2024
Its main building had been incinerated by airstrikes, while a film archive dating back to the 1940s, one of the largest in Africa, had been blown open by gunfire.
—Declan Walsh Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 5 June 2024
History was ruptured in the 1950s; how could life go on after the revelation of World War II death camps and the creation of a bomb that could incinerate a city’s population with a single blast?
—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
They can be made into biomass fuels and incinerated, although some pollutants such as metals gather in the ash, which must be disposed of.
—Erica Gies, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2018
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incinerate
transitive verb
in·cin·er·ate
in-ˈsin-ə-ˌrāt
incinerated; incinerating
: to cause to burn to ashes
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