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

After deploying mock Starlink internet satellites expected to burn up in the atmosphere, the upper stage is intended to land once again in the Indian Ocean. —Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth, with up to four burning up in the atmosphere each day, according to space trackers. —Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025

Smaller asteroids, like 2025 TF, burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere or scatter small meteorites across Earth's surface. —Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025

Giacobini-Zinner, burning up in the Earth's atmosphere. —Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025

Rhymes for burn up

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