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

While the payload fairing that protected the lander before deployment reentered Earth’s atmosphere, the upper stage kept orbiting the Earth without ever reentering and burning up, Gray wrote. —Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 4 May 2026

The cargo vehicle will stay attached to the station for about seven months, then depart to burn up in Earth's atmosphere. —Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 May 2026

Some Pieris species burn up in the hot South. —Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 1 May 2026

Threats to the ozone layer continue, from, for example, chlorine-containing molecules emitted by massive wildfires and aluminum oxide produced when satellites and other space objects burn up upon reentry into the atmosphere. —Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for burn up

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