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

The vast majority of them burned up in Earth’s atmosphere, and most of those that didn’t splashed into an ocean. —David Ewalt, NBC news, 10 May 2025

Typically, space debris breaks apart and burns up during reentry, with only a small fraction of material reaching the Earth's surface. —ArsTechnica, 8 May 2025

Although SpaceX claims the satellites are designed to burn up completely, the company previously acknowledged that some remnants might occasionally make it all the way down to Earth's surface. —Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 5 May 2025

These dazzling meteors are the result of debris left by Halley’s Comet burning up in Earth’s atmosphere. —Kayla Randall, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025

Rhymes for burn up

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