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

Swift’s science mission will come to an end as the observatory likely burns up in Earth’s atmosphere later this year, according to NASA. — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026

Even if debris completely burns up during reentry, the effect of so much metal and other aerospace materials being dumped into our planet’s fragile upper atmosphere is unclear. — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026

The meteors are tiny fragments shed by Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle that burn up in Earth’s atmosphere at about 37 miles (59 kilometers) per second. — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026

Typically, it's sent to burn up in our atmosphere after its missions are over. — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 5 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for burn up

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