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Synonyms for burn down
burn down
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Princeton's WordNet
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, fireburn, 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
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#34 | can | |
#960 | fire | |
#989 | near | |
#1266 | approach | |
#1324 | cut | |
#2063 | fuel | |
#2206 | mount | |
#2703 | rise | |
#3551 | raise | |
#4499 | lift | |
#4915 | burn | |
#5685 | discharge | |
#7087 | arise | |
#8848 | bite | |
#9251 | climb | |
#9651 | glow | |
#10518 | terminate | |
#14457 | sting | |
#15199 | sack | |
#15596 | dismiss | |
#16632 | flare | |
#26899 | provoke | |
#29479 | elicit | |
#29834 | evoke | |
#29929 | ascend | |
#40027 | displace | |
#40719 | sunburn | |
#43132 | arouse | |
#71611 | kindle | |
#107919 | incinerate | |
#119460 | combust | |
#207890 | uprise | |
#225824 | cauterize |
How to use burn down in a sentence?
In Breonna's name, neither I or my teenage daughter who was arrested with me tried to burn down a library that our people need, those are some ridiculous charges that are levied against us.
They didn't say anything to anyone, the army started to burn down the tarpaulin houses.
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. We will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
You never expect a house across from a fire station to burn down because you run out of the water.
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.
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