incinerate
verb (used with object)
to burn or reduce to ashes; cremate.
were 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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They had just poured a lot of concrete, and were incinerating the cement sacks in a fifty-five-gallon drum.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 22, 2016
