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incinerated

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verb

past tense of incinerate

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Verb
  • By Tuesday afternoon, the wildfire had burned more than 2,800 acres, and officials said that gusts as strong as 60 miles per hour had challenged the more than 700 firefighters responding to the scene.
    Corina Knoll, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024
  • At least one house in the exclusive Serra Retreat area has burned, while students at Pepperdine University sheltered in place as flames burned close to campus.
    Pat Saperstein, Variety, 10 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Last week, Simcha Graiman, a worker with Zaka, a volunteer Israeli rescue organization, scraped a scorched home in Kibbutz Holit for ashes.
    Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Smoking heaps of rubble lay piled high next to the waterfront and gray smoke hovered over the leafless skeletons of scorched trees.
    JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
Verb
  • At its peak, the wildfire that ignited Monday expanded at an alarming rate, consuming an area larger than five football fields per minute and destroying at least seven structures.
    Hanna Park, Robert Shackelford and Mary Gilbert, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The wildfire ignited Monday and has expanded at an alarming rate, burning more than 3,000 acres with 0% containment and destroying at least seven structures.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The ground was now full of enormous potholes covered by thin layers of singed plants.
    Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Polaris Program/John Kraus A white spacecraft, lightly toasted like a marshmallow and smelling of singed metal, fell out of the night sky early on Sunday morning and splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico not all that far from Key West.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2024
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