Usually means: Destroy structure using fire intentionally.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. burn down: Merriam-Webster
  2. burn down: Vocabulary.com
  3. burn-down: Wordnik
  4. burn (sth) down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. burn down: Wiktionary
  6. burn down: Dictionary.com
  7. burn down: Rhymezone
  8. burn down: Phrasal Verb Page
  9. burn down: FreeDictionary.org
  10. burn down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. burn down: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. burn down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. burn down: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. burn down: Encyclopedia

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

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  1. burn down: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. burn down: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (burn down)

verb:  (transitive) To cause (a structure) to burn to nothing.
verb:  (intransitive, of a structure) To burn completely, so that nothing remains.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To kill (someone), especially by shooting; to attack (someone).

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