INCINERATES Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

incinerates

verb

present tense third-person singular of incinerate

as in ignites

to burn (something) completely The waste is incinerated in a large furnace.

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Recent Examples of incinerates With the transformer clicked on, one associate of Blaine and Anneliese's immediately incinerates. — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026 In 2025, French firm Veolia flexed its global leadership in PFAS treatment by opening a massive plant in Delaware that filters PFAS from water and incinerates it to break the bond between fluorine and carbon, one of the strongest in chemistry. — Don Steinberg, Time, 30 Apr. 2026 In Death by Lightning, his performance as Charles Guiteau incinerates any attempt to categorize the presidential assassin. — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025 No, the King of the Monsters unleashes his fiery breath on the man and incinerates him instead. — Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025

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The painting itself even ignites uncertainty among art historians.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2026
In modern nuclear weapons, conventional explosives set off a fission reaction—the splitting of big atoms—whose intensity then ignites a fusion reaction that combines light atoms.

— Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of ignites

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The report authors also looked at how climate change could play out differently if the world burns more or fewer fossil fuels and puts in place stronger or weaker policies.

— Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
Decades later, the fire lit by his first steed, a brown Schwinn Mag Scrambler, still burns bright.

— Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2026

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Jason fires a 3-D harpoon into the eye of Vera Sanchez (Catherine Parks), and later crushes the skull of Rick Bombay (Paul Kratka), causing his eyes to pop out.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
After all, what could go wrong sitting atop three million barrels of oil while a hostile country fires missiles and drones at it?

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026

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