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burn down
Diminish for lack of fuel, as in The fire will soon burn down . [Late 1800s]
Completely consume by fire, burn to the ground, as in Their house burned down and they had nowhere to go . [Mid-1800s]
Example Sentences
Dear Liz: My house was burned down in the Palisades fire.
He used the earnings to buy several homes in the L.A. area, one of which burned down in January’s fires.
“I’m not moving again. I’m not moving my kids again,” Redick told The Times as he drove back toward his home for the first time since it burned down in the Palisades fire.
The sense of loss Sue Labella feels after the Pacific Palisades home she’d lived in for almost 50 years burned down in January’s wildfire is only matched by her desire to return.
The fire burned down the ranch house and other historic buildings.
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