Burn Down: (1)

Grammar Tense Structure:

  • Present Tense: burn / burns down
  • Past Tense: burned / burnt down
  • Past Participle: burned / burnt down
  • Present Participle: burning down

1: When a building or other structure burns down or someone burns it down, it is completely destroyed by fire.

separable & non-separable phrasal verb

  • The wild fires burned down the farm, thankfully much of the wildlife survived.
  • The wild fires completely burned the farms down!
  • The restaurateur was arrested for deliberately burning his restaurant down as it was losing so much money.
  • He was arrested for deliberately burning down his restaurant as it was losing so much money.

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