burn up

phrasal 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

To avoid burning up too much of its cash on hand, big Silicon Valley companies, like Meta and Oracle, are tapping private equity and debt to finance the industry's data center building spree. —Bobby Allyn, NPR, 23 Nov. 2025

And if asset values come back down to earth, the challenge will be to avoid burning up on reentry. —Jim Edwards, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025

As Earth passes through the comet's dusty trail, those particles collide with our atmosphere at lightning speed, burning up in bursts of shimmery light. —Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 15 Nov. 2025

These particles burn up in the atmosphere, producing the visible meteor shower, according to NASA. —Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025

Rhymes for burn up

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