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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Shooting stars are meteors, meteoroids that light up when small rock particles burn up in Earth’s atmosphere. —

Jamie Carter, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024 In fact, only about 8% of the waste plastic fed into its advanced recycling system becomes new plastic; the rest gets burned up as fuel or becomes other nonplastic products. —

Lisa Song, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2024 Once the de-orbit burn was complete, the Starliner's service module, housing the OMACs, 28 RCS jets, the helium tanks and other critical but no-longer-needed systems, was jettisoned to burn up on the atmosphere. —

William Harwood, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2024 Advertisement Streaks of light, commonly referred to as shooting stars, appear in the night sky when a piece of dust or other debris encounters the Earth’s atmosphere and burns up. —

Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for burn up