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.

Examples of burn up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Come too close to one, and you’d get sucked in by its gravitational pull, or burn up from the intense heat surrounding it. —David Garofalo, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025

Recent history is littered with missions that didn’t make it, including the Peregrine moon lander, which burned up in Earth’s atmosphere in early 2024. —Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025

That means less space junk burns up, creating a higher risk of collisions. —Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025

Serving many different customers The advantages of such a platform include superior image quality, less congested orbits, and natural debris removal as inoperable satellites are pulled down into Earth's atmosphere and burnt up. —Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2025

Rhymes for burn up

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