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

After 50 years, historians say a suspicious fire - probably arson - burned down the Point Alones fishing village in 1906. —Sharon Chin, CBS News, 1 May 2026

There was the Casino Bar, run by Evelyn Casini, and the Tides Blue Room, which subsequently burned down. —Tony Lee Moral, IndieWire, 27 Apr. 2026

Hunter said her home and the wedding chapel weren’t the only things that were burned down by the wildfire. —Staff Author, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026

Peasants whisper about monsters in the forest, and in the interlude between the wars, Lajos gazes at a house that is burning down and has a premonition of the world-historical destruction to come. —Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for burn down

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