The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carbonize \Car"bon*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Carbonized; p. pr. & vb. n. Carbonizing.] [Cf. F. carboniser.]
To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.
To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making steel by cementation.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of carbonize English)
Usage examples of "carbonizing".
Exposed to the intense heat, the chemical compounds ignited in a flash explosion that sent the huge body of the Melodist flying across the choreochamber, shredding its limbs along the way and carbonizing its integument.
Their blackened bodies would continue carbonizing down to ash, for the posts would flame on for some three hours.
Simna started to cough, choking on the ashes from the carbonizing vegetation and the air that had begun to sear his lungs.
She played two seconds of brilliance from her flame gun, carbonizing the root all the way back to the trunk.
It went into the floor, vaporizing the surface and carbonizing the multi-ply wood layer beneath it.
Brilliant rainbow bursts exploded from the disk, searing the earth black where they struck, instantly carbonizing anything organic they came in contact with.