immolate

present singular third person immolates · participle present immolating · participle past immolated · past immolated

1. To kill as a sacrifice by burning.

   Evidently some, or all, of the boars immolated themselves, for the train crew are reported to have picked up three dead boars and continued to Sézanne, the next stop, where they gave them to the local hospital cooks.

   1957 December 28, “Wild Boars Charge French Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 840

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   A secular style, a new beginning after the iconoclastic excesses under young Edward VI, when angels, Mothers and Children had flared and crackled in the streets, immolated to a logical absolute God who disliked images.

   1978, A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden

2. To kill, harm, or destroy by fire.

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   She imparted these stories gradually to Miss Crawley; gave her the whole benefit of them; felt it to be her bounden duty as a Christian woman and mother of a family to do so; had not the smallest remorse or compunction for the victim whom her tongue was immolating; nay, very likely thought her act was quite meritorious, and plumed herself upon her resolute manner of performing it.

   1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

1. not comparableobsoleteImmolated, sacrificed.