burn down

verb

burned down or burnt down; burning down; burns down

1

of a building or other structure : to be destroyed by fire

The hotel burned down in 1922.

2

of a fire : to become smaller : to gradually produce less and less flame

We watched the fire as it slowly burned down.

3

: to destroy (something) by fire

Vandals burned down the school.

burned it down

Examples of burn down in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Fires are sometimes attributed to electrical faults, but there have also been cases of students burning down schools because of disciplinary issues. —Evelyne Musambi, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026

Attackers also burned down one of the patient-isolation tents hastily erected on the hospital grounds, before soldiers dispersed them by firing warning shots. —Emmet Livingstone, NPR, 28 May 2026

If charcoal, allow to burn down past super hot. —CBS News, 28 May 2026

One of them burned down, and the other sustained damage. —Sarah Batcha, Oc Register, 28 May 2026

Rhymes for burn down

• adown
• blowdown
• breakdown
• countdown
• crackdown
• crosstown
• downtown
• drawdown
• dropdown
• facedown
• godown
• hometown