VERB
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burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire
The hut burned down
The mountain of paper went up in flames -
use up (energy)
burn off calories through vigorous exercise -
burn brightly
Every star seemed to flare with new intensity
How To Use burn up In A Sentence
- Thank God, there were no lights; I could so feel my face burn up, probably blushing.
- Most of these fireballs burn up or explode in the atmosphere and vanish without a trace.
- It's an early emission-control device that injected pulses of fresh air into the catalytic converter to help burn up any unburned fuel that managed to get that far.
- Millions burn up their free hours on one service, then hop to another to grab more free hours.
- Meteors produce streaks of light as they burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
- Women - rather unfairly I feel - tend to burn up calories less efficiently than men.
- Is it wise to burn up the calories in the winter cold? Times, Sunday Times
- So global warming is just a natural occurrence when you believe all the hogwash in the Christian Bible or hell, in the Book of the Moron Mormons, or hell, in the Koran...you name one of those holy books, they all say the same thing: the world will end one day because it will burn up, as George Gamov explained in his book The Death of the Sun, because right before the Sun goes dark, it expands to a tremendous heat, so hot it finallys blows to all Hell and the heat emitted by the blow up will certainly "scorch" the earth, as predicted by the Christian bible--you even heard of "the scorched earth" policy? This World Is NOW HELL
- At the end of its six-month mission, Jules Verne will offload solid waste and wastewater from the Station and burn up during atmospheric re-entry over the Pacific Ocean.
- The station would burn up on re-entry into the earth's atmosphere.