incinerate

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

It describes the behavior of some speculators in volatile stocks or cryptocurrencies who incinerate more of their savings after failing to cash in on big paper gains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 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

Hers were the only pair of eyes that were attempting to incinerate him.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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

Daenerys incinerates the rooms where, years ago, Ned argued with Robert and the Small Council not to assassinate her.

From Slate ● May 17, 2019

This is the game you burn, even though it may also be the game that incinerates the team’s playoff chances.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2016

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

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

The Earth’s atmosphere has always incinerated bits of incoming debris—we call them shooting stars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

A couple who put their car in for an MOT have discovered it was incinerated when the garage was destroyed by a huge fire.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

The options trader known as “Captain Condor” and his acolytes experienced a wipeout last week that incinerated tens of millions of dollars and cost some investors their life savings.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025

The whole world stood by breathlessly, wondering if he would be incinerated when he reentered Earth’s atmosphere and the capsule emitted flames.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

"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

Japan does relatively well on generating electricity by incinerating trash, too.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

On Aug. 24, 1814, invading Redcoats torched the still-unfinished Capitol building, incinerating the library’s 3,000 books and most of its government records.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

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