burn away

phrasal verb

burned away or burnt away; burning away; burns away

: to be removed or to remove (something) by fire or heat

The outer layer of wooden shingles burned away quickly in the fire.

The fire quickly burned the outer layer of wooden shingles away.

burned away unwanted hair

Examples of burn away in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The latter happened when the two brothers were battling a wildfire that had grown from efforts to burn away vegetation on some marshland at the farm; some in Plainfield questioned whether Ed had something to do with it. —Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 28 Aug. 2025

The fire was burning away from Calistoga. —Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2025

Over eons, these increasingly dense elements burn away within the core as lighter elements incinerate across successive, encompassing layers. —Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2025

After three months of waiting and talking about their survival prospects, this was an opportunity to burn away that nervous energy, on and off the field. —Beren Cross, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for burn away

• aaa
• adonais
• alleyway
• alumnae
• anime
• anyway
• arete
• attache
• baa
• beaujolais
• bouvier
• breakaway