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

If meteoroids survive their trip to Earth without burning up in the atmosphere, they are called meteorites, NASA says. —Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025

Without a boost to its altitude from a visiting spacecraft, Hubble will dip into a lower and lower orbit and eventually burn up in Earth's atmosphere by the mid-2030s. —Josh Dinner, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2025

Early on, the poisons hold back the reactions, but over time the poisons burn up, allowing the remaining fuel to keep blazing away at the same rate. —New Atlas, 15 Apr. 2025

To keep the astronauts safe, Dragon employs a heat shield to keep it from burning up during re-entry. —Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2025

Rhymes for burn up

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