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

Then, Swift will drop from orbit and is expected to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere during the plunge. — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026

The space station deorbited in 1982 and burned up in Earth's atmosphere. — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 29 Sep. 2026

Three of those satellites also beamed back imagery of Starship’s heat shield, which must remain intact to ensure the spacecraft doesn’t break apart and burn up during reentry. — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2026

Previous missions deployed either Starlink simulators or satellites that burned up in the atmosphere. — ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for burn up

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