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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Dying stars exhale hot stellar winds; any carbon swept up in these winds essentially burns up, producing stellar soot. —

Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 13 Nov. 2024 The princess can transform herself into a blue, sword-wielding, arrow-shooting bomb chucker, but the time spent in this form burns up energy that needs to be purposefully replenished. —

Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2024 Luckily, the few things that didn’t burn up in the fire included a notebook with ideas for her third album. —

Katie Bain, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2024 Conventional metal satellites create aluminum oxide particles during re-entry, but wooden ones would just burn up with less pollution, Doi said. —

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