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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Related Articles In a tongue-in-cheek commercial released last week, Darn Tough showed videos of its socks burning up in a campfire, being eaten by a dog and snatched by a falcon to use as nesting material. —Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 21 June 2024

It is jettisoned prior to re-entry and burns up in the atmosphere. —William Harwood, CBS News, 21 June 2024

This vehicle broke apart and burned up during its attempt to return through the atmosphere during a flight test in March. —Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2024

Its trip to the moon has been more successful than fellow commercial company Astrobotic Technology’s attempt that launched in January, which suffered a propellant leak that forced the company to send its Peregrine lunar lander back to Earth to burn up on reentry. —Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2024