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

Three members of the Spokane Fire Department sit on a curb in front of burned down homes in the Balboa neighborhood of Spokane, Washington, on August 2, 2026. — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026

The hotel, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, had nearly burned down before. — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

Her house burned down too, and shortly after, her husband died. — Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026

And that went from outside the wilderness to inside the wilderness — just a really low-intensity fire that burned down to the shore of Slim Lake. — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 29 July 2026

Rhymes for burn down

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