incinerate
verb (used with object)
to burn or reduce to ashes; cremate.
was incinerating
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past progressiveof incinerate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The largest fire in the United States was incinerating huge swaths of the Fremont-Winema National Forest in southern Oregon.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2021
This was particularly true since HBO was incinerating money.
From Time Magazine Archive
She fought for breath, as if that stare was incinerating all the oxygen in the room, as if she would be consumed along with it.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
