incinerate

To destroy by burning.

His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes.

A cloud of smoke from two pounds of methamphetamine seized by the FBI and incinerated inside a Montana animal shelter sent its workers to the hospital, city officials in Billings said.

To annihilate (not necessarily by burning).

Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.

FIRE burneth wood, making it first luminous; then black and brittle; and lastly , broken and incinerate