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Princeton's WordNet

  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"

  2. burn, fire, burn downverb

    destroy by fire

    "They burned the house and his diaries"

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  1. burn downverb

    To cause (a structure) to burn to nothing.

  2. burn downverb

    To burn completely, so that nothing remains.

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  1. burn down

    "Burn down" is a term primarily used in two contexts: 1. In project management (especially in agile and scrum methodologies), a "burn down" chart represents the work remaining over time. This visualization helps teams to track their progress and predict when the work will be completed. 2. In a literal sense, "burn down" refers to the act of completely destroying something (like a building or structure) by setting it on fire.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of burn down in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of burn down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of burn down in a Sentence

  1. Elizabeth Warren:

    These harsh tactics might work if you're willing to burn down the rest of the party in order to be the last man standing, but if we're going to beat Donald Trump in November, we are going to need huge turnout within our party, and to get that turnout, we will need a nominee that the broadest coalition of our party feels they can get behind. We can't afford to fall into factions. We can't afford to squander our collective power. We will win when we come together.

  2. 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.

  3. Sarah Combs:

    At those high temperatures, within two to three seconds [ a ] child can sustain what we call a full thickness third-degree burn down to the bone.

  4. Amanda Seyfried:

    I always worry about people and how they use stoves. Which is just a controlling thing, [It’s] about the gas. You could so easily burn down something if you leave the stove on. Or the oven.

  5. Elizabeth Warren:

    These harsh tactics might work if you're willing to burn down the rest of the party in order to be the last man standing. They might work if you don't worry about leaving Iowa Democratic Party and our politics worse off than how you found Iowa Democratic Party. They might work if you think only you have all the answers and only you are the solution to all our problems.


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