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

Also unlikely to receive funding is a campground in Nevada’s Great Basin National Park that burned down in 2016 and has yet to be fixed. — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2026

Woody lit a spark all right, but burned down the house all over again in the process. — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 7 Nov. 2026

First built in 1882 as a train depot for the Tallulah Falls Railway, the building burned down in 1912 but was rebuilt the following year. — Heather L. Whitley, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2026

The council member has spent significant time in Boyle Heights following the Lineage fire, which burned down a massive cold food storage facility, sending noxious smoke into the heavily Latino neighborhood. — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026

Rhymes for burn down

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