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Definition

commit suicide by burning as a protest or sacrifice

or:

offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction

The monk self-immolated in protest against China's rule of Tibet.

immolated = committed suicide by burning

The Aztecs immolated human victims
immolate the valuables at the temple
People sitting on the sidewalk in the dawn half immolate and smoking in their clothes. Like failed sectarian suicides.
Cormac McCarthy -- The Road

immolate = burned as a sacrifice

I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Cask of Amontillado

immolation = burning

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

When it was added that man must find joy in self-immolation, the trap was closed.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

Or, according to another tradition, at the shore he immolated himself upon a funeral pyre, and birds with multi-colored feathers arose from his ashes.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
I think I'd prefer self-immolation, on a stage perhaps, with all my paintings.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban

A week after Louie had left Omori, sixteen square miles of Tokyo, and tens of thousands of souls, had been immolated by B-29s.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
Though he was totally immolated, the drow barely felt warmed by the fire.
R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
He started off in praise of virtue, duty, and silent immolation, having himself an incredible longing for self-sacrifice that he could not satisfy.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary

She emptied her blackened pieces into the flames, and motioned me to finish the immolation.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights

With a sweep of his cane, the demon destroyed the flowers in an immolation of golden flames.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge

Malcolm Browne, the AP Saigon bureau chief, was one of the few journalists to witness the immolation of Thich Quang Duc.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy

This pilot immolated himself against the USS Bismarck Sea, adjacent to the Lawrence Taylor.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
"Self-immolate," Colin corrected, and then pulled the door shut.
John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines
That was now done, and she had not the power to attempt self-immolation a second time then.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles

A spiritual privacy so long intact that its own instinct for preservation had immolated it, its physical phase the strength and fortitude of a man.
William Faulkner -- Light in August
' The priests concluded that Mr Fukai had run back to immolate himself in the flames.
John Hersey -- Hiroshima
He seemed to be stuck in the moment of his immolation, like a black-and-white video on a permanent loop.
Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus

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