Both Uses
incinerate
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- And yet the Americans did inflict damage that hellish first morning—by the same excruciating means they would continue to inflict it for thirty-six days, until all the 22,000 defenders were wiped out: by exposing themselves to fire, charging the fortified blockhouses and cave entrances, and shooting or incinerating their tormentors at close range.†
Chpt 7.
- They not only incinerated dozens of Japanese—the smell of burnt flesh floated on the damp wind—their liquid fire turned several pillboxes into infernos, causing Japanese ammunition to explode in great bursts.†
Chpt 9. *
Definitions:
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(1)
(incinerate) burn to ashes
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)