burn down

phrasal verb

burned down or burnt down; burning down; burns down

1

of a building or other structure : to be destroyed by fire

The hotel burned down in 1922.

2

of a fire : to become smaller : to gradually produce less and less flame

We watched the fire as it slowly burned down.

3

: to destroy (something) by fire

Vandals burned down the school.

burned it down

Examples of burn down in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After hosting marchers, Steele’s house and her store mysteriously burned down. —Michael S. Williamson, Washington Post, 22 June 2024

That night, the mob burned down the Lee family home. —Dhanika Pineda, ABC News, 19 June 2024

The village at the center of the fighting, Saint-Marcel, had to be totally rebuilt after almost every building was burned down. —Ségolène Le Stradic, New York Times, 5 June 2024

Much of the town of Oakville burned down in 1893, but the store was rebuilt and transformed from a mercantile into a grocery store that became more gourmet as its customer base did. —Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 3 June 2024