burn down

Verb
  1. Burn completely;
    Be consumed or destroyed by fire (synset 200378022)
    "The hut burned down"; "The mountain of paper went up in flames"
    is a type of: burn, combust - undergo combustion
    subtypes: incinerate - become reduced to ashes
    same as: burn up, go up
  2. Destroy by fire (synset 200379335)
    "They burned the house and his diaries"
    is a type of: destroy, ruin - destroy completely; damage irreparably
    subtypes:
    • backfire - set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire
    • cremate - reduce to ashes
    • torch - burn maliciously, as by arson
    • scorch - destroy completely by or as if by fire
    same as: burn, fire
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