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1. burn down, burn up, go upverb

   burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire

   "The hut burned down"; "The mountain of paper went up in flames"

   Synonyms:
   rise, burn off, come on, burn up, ascend, lift, burn, draw close, arise, flare, go up, approach, come up, draw near, come near, flame up, mount, climb up, move up, near, uprise, blaze up, climb, fire

2. burn, fire, burn downverb

   destroy by fire

   "They burned the house and his diaries"

   Synonyms:
   kindle, evoke, bite, sack, give the axe, burn, dismiss, go off, go up, enkindle, give the sack, cut, glow, elicit, burn up, terminate, fire, combust, arouse, give notice, open fire, displace, sting, send away, raise, sunburn, provoke, can, cauterize, incinerate, discharge, burn off, fuel, force out, cauterise

How to use burn down in a sentence?

1. Judd Deere:

   The perimeter was expanded to help enforce the 7 p.m. curfew in the same area where rioters attempted to burn down one of our nations most historic churches the night before. Protesters were given three warnings by the U.S. Park Police.

2. President Barack Obama on Tuesday:

   There's no excuse for the kind of violence that we saw yesterday. It is counterproductive, when individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson. And they're destroying and undermining businesses and opportunities in their own communities. That robs jobs and opportunity from people in that area.

3. Jess Dooley:

   Who’s going to Walkerton, IN to burn down #memoriespizza w me?

4. Darrell Sales:

   It's been a whirlwind of events and a lot of emotions and a lot of different things happening at once, i've seen plenty of houses burn down and, you know, I definitely have a new perspective or just a new insight now that my house has joined that group.

5. Patricia McCloskey:

   [They said] that they were going to killus, they were going to come inthere.They were going to burn down thehouse.They were going to be living inour house after I was dead, andthey were pointing to differentrooms and said, Thats going tobe my bedroom and thats goingto be the living room and Imgoing to be taking a shower inthat room.

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