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burned down

burned down is the simple past of burn down.

Meaning of burn down

Verb

burn down (third-person singular simple present burns down, present participle burning down, simple past and past participle burned down or burnt down)

  1. (transitive) To cause (a structure) to burn to nothing.
    • The police are hoping to find the people who burned down the cottage.
  2. (intransitive) To burn completely, so that nothing remains.
    • A fire which started in the bedroom caused the cottage to burn down.
  3. (slang, transitive) To kill (someone), especially by shooting; to attack (someone).

Questions about burned down

What is burned down the simple past of?
Burned down is the simple past of burn down.

Words near burned down in the dictionary

  1. burned a hole in someone's pocket
  2. burned away
  3. burned bread
  4. burned coal
  5. burned daylight
  6. burned down
  7. burned in
  8. burned off
  9. burned one down
  10. burned one's boats
  11. burned one's bridges

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Adapted from Wiktionary: burned down (page history and authors); burn down (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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