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Verb: burn down  burn dawn
  1. Burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire
    "The hut burned down";
    - burn up, go up
     
  2. Destroy by fire
    "They burned down the house and his diaries";
    - burn, fire

Derived forms: burning down, burns down, burned down

Type of: burn, combust, destroy, ruin, spifflicate, spiflicate

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