焼しょう尽じん

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

complete burning; burning down; incineration

Refers to something being entirely consumed by fire, often used in formal or descriptive contexts. As a suru verb, it is intransitive: the subject burns down or is reduced to ashes.

• 大たい火かで町まちの半はん分ぶんが焼しょう尽じんした。

  Half the town was completely burned down in the great fire.

• 書しょ類るいはすべて焼しょう尽じんし、何なにも残のこらなかった。

  All the documents were incinerated, leaving nothing behind.