incinerating

Verb

incinerate (third-person singular simple present incinerates, present participle incinerating, simple past and past participle incinerated)

1. (transitive) To destroy by burning.
   • His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes.1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., chapter 1, in Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 1

   Synonyms:

   burn, forsweal

2. (informal) To annihilate (not necessarily by burning).

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