burn up
[verb]
Synonyms: irritate, aggravate, exasperate, gall, get, grate, inflame, provoke, rile, roil

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burn up phrasal verb (see also burn)

1. if something burns up or is burnt up, it is completely destroyed by fire or heat:
The satellite will burn up as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere.
burn something ↔ up
Most of the woodland has now been burnt up.

2. burn something ↔ up informal to use a lot of something in a careless way:
Most household appliances burn up loads of electricity.
He just burns up money!

3. be burning up spoken if someone is burning up, they are very hot, usually because they are ill:
Feel his forehead – he’s burning up.

4. burn somebody up American English informal to make someone very angry:
The way he treats her really burns me up.

5. burn something ↔ up to use energy that is stored in your body, by being physically active:
As we get older, our body becomes less efficient at burning up calories.

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burn up
burn (someone) up
to anger someone a lot.
I was really burned up by her comment.

burn up (something)
1.
to use a lot of a system.
The singer's fans have burned up the Internet with speculation about her cancelled tour.

2.
to use all of something.
Commuting to and from my job burns up all my free time.

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burn up something
burn up (something)
1.
to use a lot of a system.
The singer's fans have burned up the Internet with speculation about her cancelled tour.

2.
to use all of something.
Commuting to and from my job burns up all my free time.

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burn up
to burn completely (usually things and not buildings)
The uniforms burned up in the fire.

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burn up
v.
1. To burn completely; destroy or be destroyed by fire.
Mr. Scott was burning up old letters.
The house burned up before the firemen got there.
2. informal To irritate, anger, annoy.
The boy's laziness and rudeness burned up his teacher.
The breakdown of his new car burned Mr. Jones up.

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burn someone up
burn (someone) up
to anger someone a lot.
I was really burned up by her comment.

burn up (something)
1.
to use a lot of a system.
The singer's fans have burned up the Internet with speculation about her cancelled tour.

2.
to use all of something.
Commuting to and from my job burns up all my free time.

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