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.