Definition of "burn up" []

• To catch fire and burn until destroyed (verb)
• To destroy by burning. (verb)
• To anger; to annoy. (verb)

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• "King Ingiald finds it vastly amusing to burn up half a dozen kings in a hall, after getting them drunk."
• "If he got a good blaze going somewhere else, that hex would burn up just like anything else."
• "Of course, some women put their husband's salaries on their backs instead of his ribs; but there are a heap more men who burn up their wives 'new sealskin sacques in two-bit cigars."