Usually means: To be consumed by fire.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word burn up:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. burn up: Merriam-Webster
  2. burn up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. burn-up, burn-up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. burn up: Vocabulary.com
  5. burn-up: Wordnik
  6. burn (sth) up, burn up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. burn up: Wiktionary
  8. burn up: Dictionary.com
  9. Burn Up (TV miniseries), Burn Up (miniseries), Burn Up, Burn-up, Burn up (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. burn up: Rhymezone
  11. burn up: Phrasal Verb Page
  12. burn-up, burn up: FreeDictionary.org
  13. burn up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. burn-up, burn up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. burn up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Burn Up, burn up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Burn-up, burn up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. burn up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. burn up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. burn up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. burn up: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See burn_ups as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (burn up)

verb:  (intransitive) To catch fire and burn until destroyed.
verb:  (transitive) To destroy by burning.
verb:  (transitive) To anger; to annoy.
verb:  (intransitive) To feel overly hot or inflamed.
verb:  (intransitive, specifically) To experience a high fever.
verb:  (dated) To ride a motorcycle or other vehicle at high speed.
verb:  (intransitive, bowling, of a ball) To use up too much energy when first bowled and to therefore not finishing strongly.
noun:  Misspelling of burnup. [(physics) A measure of the consumption of fuel in a nuclear reactor.]

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