burn up
Reduce to ash
Burn up means to be consumed by fire: The building burned up in minutes.
It also means to generate intense heat, as with a fever: She's burning up.
In casual American speech, burn up expresses anger: It burns me up when people cut in line.
To burn up the road or track is to travel at high speed.
Burn to nothing
- engulfCompletely surround and cover
- devourEat greedily and fast
- destroyCause complete ruin
- combustCatch fire suddenly
flames · ashes · char · scorch · blaze · ignite · kindle · conflagration
Greatly reduce supply
- drainChannel for wastewater
- expendUse until gone
- squanderUse up carelessly
- wasteUnwanted discarded material
run through · empty · spend · consume · dissipate · finish off · tap out · resources
Intense, violent anger
- furyIntense violent anger
- fumingExtremely angry, visibly so
- seethingIntensely, quietly enraged
- lividExtremely angry or discolored
irate · incensed · enraged · infuriated · boiling · indignation · exasperation · outrage
Machine producing motion
- radiatorHeat transfer device
- coolantTemperature-regulating fluid
- thermostatAutomatic climate control device
- overheatingBecoming dangerously warm
friction · exhaust · mechanical failure · seized · smoking · transmission · brakes · motor
incinerate
Burn to nothing
combust · flames · ashes · char · scorch · blaze · ignite · kindle · conflagration · immolate
deplete
Greatly reduce supply
waste · run through · empty · spend · consume · dissipate · finish off · tap out · resources · energy
rage
Intense, violent anger
livid · irate · incensed · enraged · infuriated · boiling · indignation · exasperation · outrage · irritation
engine
Machine producing motion
- radiatorHeat transfer device
- coolantTemperature-regulating fluid
- thermostatAutomatic climate control device
overheating · friction · exhaust · mechanical failure · seized · smoking · transmission · brakes · motor · breakdown
temperature
Measured heat intensity
- feverishHaving elevated temperature
- sweatingMoisture through pores
- chillsShivering spells from illness
flushed · hot · thermometer · illness · infection · inflammation · malaise · delirium · pyrexia · overheated
- temperature idiomscold shoulder, hot head, in hot water, cold feet, hot under the collar
- anger expressionssee red, seeing red, lose your temper, blow a fuse, blow a gasket
- heat and fireignite, flame, blaze, combust, incinerate
- Project Estimationestimate, forecast, ballpark, quote, bid
burn upfreeze
Become solid from cold
freeze over · ice up · cool down · chill · refrigerate
up, burn, burning, burnt, burned, burns, burnish, combustion, burnable