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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Since 2020, blazes even burned up homes on the Oregon coast, just inland from the Pacific Ocean in areas once thought almost immune to fire because of a wetter, cooler climate.
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Claire Rush, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
If meteoroids survive their trip to Earth without burning up in the atmosphere, they are called meteorites, NASA says.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2025
These cometary remains burn up in our planet’s atmosphere, appearing as shooting stars to those on the ground.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
On the other hand, if your social media app of choice elicits feelings of insufficiency, and self-control resources are burned up by exerting will power to avoid consuming products, or regulating hard emotions, than that experience is important to notice.
—Ellen Choi, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Claire Rush, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
If meteoroids survive their trip to Earth without burning up in the atmosphere, they are called meteorites, NASA says.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2025
These cometary remains burn up in our planet’s atmosphere, appearing as shooting stars to those on the ground.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
On the other hand, if your social media app of choice elicits feelings of insufficiency, and self-control resources are burned up by exerting will power to avoid consuming products, or regulating hard emotions, than that experience is important to notice.
—Ellen Choi, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Burn up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burn%20up. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
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