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burn down
Completely consume by fire, burn to the ground, as in Their house burned down and they had nowhere to go . [Mid-1800s]
Diminish for lack of fuel, as in The fire will soon burn down . [Late 1800s]
Example Sentences
After their home burned down, the estimates the couple received to rebuild were in excess of $3 million, the lawsuit says.
He described the riots as “a massive citywide uprising,” with “thousands of people who were on the streets in various parts of the city, some burning down buildings.”
At the White House on Monday, Trump said his decision to send in the National Guard had stopped the city from "burning down".
Harris expects the new builds in Altadena to match the ones that burned down — to a degree.
Showbiz speaker Billy Crystal, a longtime Palisades resident whose home burned down in January, joked about the students wrapping up the school year in an “abandoned Sears building” where he “once bought a washer-dryer.”
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