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

Starship has carried small batches of V3 Starlinks on previous launches, but those missions’ suborbital trajectories meant the satellites burned up in Earth’s atmosphere rather than remaining in orbit. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Recommended by Our Editors Still, John Barentine, an astronomer and President of the Center for Space Environmentalism, told PCMag another issue is that SpaceX plans on burning up so many Starmind satellites in Earth’s atmosphere. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026

That force would eventually cause the satellite to fall into the Earth’s atmosphere and burn up. — Sara Hashemi, Popular Science, 9 Sep. 2026

Firefighters reportedly found no working alarm, no suppression system, and three dead hydrants; the safety documents they’re legally entitled to see reportedly burned up in the blaze. — Petala Ironcloud, ArsTechnica, 7 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for burn up

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