burn down

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

Levi’s family formed the Live Like Braun Foundation after the accident last May that took the life of the teenager, who had relocated with his parents to the South Bay after their Pacific Palisades home burned down in the 2025 wildfire. —James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026

The home Pratt owned with his wife, Heidi Montag, burned down in the 2025 Palisades fires. —James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2026

After 50 years, historians say a suspicious fire - probably arson - burned down the Point Alones fishing village in 1906. —Sharon Chin, CBS News, 1 May 2026

There was the Casino Bar, run by Evelyn Casini, and the Tides Blue Room, which subsequently burned down. —Tony Lee Moral, IndieWire, 27 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for burn down

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