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

Six years later, the family’s experiencing déjà vu: Their new home in the rocky region of northern California recently burned down to the studs in the 2024 Park Fire, the fourth largest fire in the state’s history. —Shania Baweja, CNN, 18 Aug. 2024

In 2020, Silas Yamamoto’s family home burned down in the Slater fire, a devastating blaze that destroyed over 100 homes in his hometown of Happy Camp, California. —Joseph Lee, Vox, 15 Aug. 2024

For Taff, a top priority moving forward is burning down costs down to the point where geothermal is competitive with natural gas. —Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2024

The Performing Arts Theatre in el Geneina was also burned down, and both the Sultan Bahruddin Museum and the National History Museum in Khartoum reported the loss of their collections to bombing. —Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2024