burn down

phrasal verb

burned down or burnt down; burning down; burns down

1

of a building or other structure : to be destroyed by fire

The hotel burned down in 1922.

2

of a fire : to become smaller : to gradually produce less and less flame

We watched the fire as it slowly burned down.

3

: to destroy (something) by fire

Vandals burned down the school.

burned it down

Examples of burn down in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Here are my tips for building a career while everything around you is burning down. —Tamar Gakharia, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025

The school for the blind burning down is already awful enough, but the fact that both Alice (Hersha Parady) and Mary’s baby burned to death in that fire? —Kelly Martinez, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025

Here’s their house, burned down to the ground. —Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2025

The hotel burned down in the late 1920s. —Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 24 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for burn down

• adown
• blowdown
• breakdown
• countdown
• crackdown
• crosstown
• downtown
• drawdown
• dropdown
• facedown
• godown
• hometown