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

Without intervention, one of the most scientifically productive space observatories ever launched could burn up in the atmosphere later this year. — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 29 July 2026

Its Service Module, which houses all of the costly propulsion systems, does not return to Earth after each flight but rather burns up in the atmosphere. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026

The meteors are fragments shed by Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, which burn up in Earth’s atmosphere at around 37 miles per second (59 km/s), according to the American Meteor Society. — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026

The satellites were intended to burn up after about 20 minutes. — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 24 July 2026

Rhymes for burn up

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