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

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Once the deorbit burn is complete, Starliner will jettison the service module to burn up in the atmosphere, and its crew module will use a different set of thrusters to guide its reentry. —Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2024

The spacecraft will soon burn up in Earth’s atmosphere By Meghan Bartels NASA is retiring its only dedicated asteroid-hunting space telescope, ending a 10-year mission that initially began as something else entirely: an astrophysics surveyor meant to open scientists’ eyes to the infrared universe. —Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 31 July 2024

The massive Park Fire that's been burning up to 150,000 acres per day and has forced thousands to evacuate rages on in northern California. —Kate Murphy, Axios, 30 July 2024

Think again Even sparklers, often given to children to wave around during celebrations, can burn up to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit — a temperature hot enough to melt metal and cause severe and permanent burns, according to Kane and Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. —Lauren Ferrer, Sun Sentinel, 1 July 2024