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

Also running are insurance agent Stacy Korsgaden from Grover Beach, and attorney Merritt Farren, whose Pacific Palisades home burned down. —Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026

That gas station burned down to the ground during the 2016 uprising following the fatal police shooting of Sylville Smith. —La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 19 Feb. 2026

Entire Black communities were burned down as lynching became rampant, a form of oppression and intimidation that persisted for almost a century. —Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026

That backstory — Greta accidentally burning down a church with children inside — is genuinely horrifying. —Kennedy French, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026

Rhymes for burn down

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