burn up

verb

burned up or burnt up; burning up; burns up

: to be destroyed or cause (something) to be destroyed by fire

Most asteroids burn up upon entering the Earth's atmosphere.

Wildfires have been raging across the region burning up acres of forest.

Do we still need these old receipts? No, burn them up.

Examples of burn up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Taurids are known for spawning brilliant fireball meteors, which can flare brighter than Venus as pebble-sized pieces of debris enter and burn up in the atmosphere. — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2026

Most of Swift should have burned up, although experts expected that a small fraction of its most durable components would survive the plunge and reach the planet’s surface. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 4 Nov. 2026

While most bits of ice and rock that burn up are the size of dust grains or pebbles, fireballs arise from debris ranging from the size of a marble to that of a small boulder. — Dharma Niles, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2026

The machine designed to save a falling satellite burned up first. — Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2026

Rhymes for burn up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup