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burn down
verb as in refute
Strong matches
Example Sentences
She hasn’t gotten any calls on it — presumably because people are assuming it burned down — so she’s planning to update the listing to clarify that it’s still standing, though probably pretty smoky.
Kahn’s 100-year-old home, formerly the lodge of a health resort, burned down.
Redick's home in the Pacific Palisades area, which has suffered the most destructive fire in LA history, burned down on Tuesday.
My friend Jean De Longe, who teaches first graders at a Palisades school that burned down, told me one of her students, whose family lost their house, was especially upset about losing his stuffies.
For those of us without supernatural social skills, it is difficult to know how to respond when someone tells us their house has just burned down.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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