burn up

phrasal 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.

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Small asteroids typically burn up in the upper atmosphere before ever reaching Earth’s surface to become meteorites. —

Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2025 Incorporating in 2021, Black Bee has been burning up the hot sauce world ever since. —

Jeff Burkhart, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2025 The first in March is a difficult case for my prediction: While the launch itself was successful, the booster stage burned up while hurtling back to the ocean and the ship itself appears to have disintegrated at some point. —

Bryan Walsh, Vox, 30 Dec. 2024 Instead of burning up their deal, Catherine explains that Peter will continue the relationship as an FBI double agent, just like his disgraced father. —

Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for burn up