if a machine or vehicle burns up fuel, it uses the fuel to work
if someone is burning up, they are very hot, especially because they have a fever
if something burns up, or if it is burned up, fire completely destroys it
same as burn off
Dancers burn up a lot of calories.
Is it wise to burn up the calories in the winter cold?
My insides felt like they were burning up.
Sometimes, you have to burn up a little bit of the past to light up the future.
The resulting friction causes them to burn up, and in some cases form a fireball.
The spacecraft has a heat shield to prevent it burning up when it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere.
burns up
burning up
burned up
burnt up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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