See burn down on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "burns down",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "burning down",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "burned down",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "burned down",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "burnt down",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "burnt down",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*",
"past2": "burnt down"
},
"expansion": "burn down (third-person singular simple present burns down, present participle burning down, simple past and past participle burned down or burnt down)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "40 49 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 47 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The police are hoping to find the people who burned down the cottage.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause (a structure) to burn to nothing."
],
"id": "en-burn_down-en-verb-yEC7sK7F",
"links": [
[
"burn",
"burn"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To cause (a structure) to burn to nothing."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "afbrand"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "opožarjavam",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "опожарявам"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shāohuǐ",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "燒毀 /烧毁"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fénhuǐ",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "焚毀 /焚毁"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "platbranden"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "afbranden"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "polttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "polttaa maan tasalle"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "carboniser"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "carbonizar"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "abbrennen"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "niederbrennen"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "leéget"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "spalać"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "spalić"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "carbonizar"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sžečʹ dotlá",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "сжечь дотла́"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "oṣati",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "ओषति"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "incendiar"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "arrasar"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "elda upp"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 13 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "bränna ner"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "40 56 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 53 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"down\"",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 51 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 54 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 57 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "38 50 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Afrikaans translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 51 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 49 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "38 50 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 50 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "38 50 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Galician translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 52 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 53 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 57 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 47 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "38 51 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 53 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 52 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Sanskrit translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "37 54 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "37 51 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "33 62 5",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Fire",
"orig": "en:Fire",
"parents": [
"Combustion",
"Light sources",
"Chemical processes",
"Light",
"Nature",
"Energy",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "41 59 0",
"tags": [
"noun"
],
"word": "burndown"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 59 0",
"word": "burn one down"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "A fire which started in the bedroom caused the cottage to burn down.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 79:",
"text": "The first Earl's Court station (1871) was a wooden hut in the middle of a market garden. It served a District connection between West Brompton and the West London Line. It managed to burn down in 1875, and the Earl's Court of today dates from 1878.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To burn completely, so that nothing remains."
],
"id": "en-burn_down-en-verb-ht-0Owlb",
"links": [
[
"burn",
"burn"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, of a structure) To burn completely, so that nothing remains."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a structure"
],
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "41 59 0",
"word": "burn off"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 59 0",
"word": "burn out"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 59 0",
"word": "burn up"
}
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "16 82 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shāoguāng",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "燒光 /烧光"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 82 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shāodiào",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "燒掉 /烧掉"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 82 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "platbranden"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 82 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "afbranden"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 82 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "palaa poroksi"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 82 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "palaa maan tasalle"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 82 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "se carboniser"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 82 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"tags": [
"pronominal"
],
"word": "carbonizar"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 82 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "abbrennen"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 82 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "niederbrennen"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 82 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "leég"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 82 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "spalać"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 82 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "spalić"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 82 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sgorétʹ dotlá",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "сгоре́ть дотла́"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 82 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "incendiarse"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 82 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "brinna ner"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 82 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "brinna upp"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "40 49 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 47 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To kill (someone), especially by shooting; to attack (someone)."
],
"id": "en-burn_down-en-verb-np2tpwTG",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, slang) To kill (someone), especially by shooting; to attack (someone)."
],
"tags": [
"slang",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "burn down"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrasal verbs",
"English phrasal verbs formed with \"down\"",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Afrikaans translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Sanskrit translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"en:Fire"
],
"derived": [
{
"tags": [
"noun"
],
"word": "burndown"
},
{
"word": "burn one down"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "burns down",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "burning down",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "burned down",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "burned down",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "burnt down",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "burnt down",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*",
"past2": "burnt down"
},
"expansion": "burn down (third-person singular simple present burns down, present participle burning down, simple past and past participle burned down or burnt down)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "burn off"
},
{
"word": "burn out"
},
{
"word": "burn up"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The police are hoping to find the people who burned down the cottage.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause (a structure) to burn to nothing."
],
"links": [
[
"burn",
"burn"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To cause (a structure) to burn to nothing."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "A fire which started in the bedroom caused the cottage to burn down.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 79:",
"text": "The first Earl's Court station (1871) was a wooden hut in the middle of a market garden. It served a District connection between West Brompton and the West London Line. It managed to burn down in 1875, and the Earl's Court of today dates from 1878.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To burn completely, so that nothing remains."
],
"links": [
[
"burn",
"burn"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, of a structure) To burn completely, so that nothing remains."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a structure"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To kill (someone), especially by shooting; to attack (someone)."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, slang) To kill (someone), especially by shooting; to attack (someone)."
],
"tags": [
"slang",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "afbrand"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "opožarjavam",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "опожарявам"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shāohuǐ",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "燒毀 /烧毁"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fénhuǐ",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "焚毀 /焚毁"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "platbranden"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "afbranden"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "polttaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "polttaa maan tasalle"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "carboniser"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "carbonizar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "abbrennen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "niederbrennen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "leéget"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "spalać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "spalić"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "carbonizar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sžečʹ dotlá",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "сжечь дотла́"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "oṣati",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "ओषति"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "incendiar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "arrasar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "elda upp"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "cause a structure to burn to nothing",
"word": "bränna ner"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shāoguāng",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "燒光 /烧光"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shāodiào",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "燒掉 /烧掉"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "platbranden"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "afbranden"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "palaa poroksi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "palaa maan tasalle"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "se carboniser"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"tags": [
"pronominal"
],
"word": "carbonizar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "abbrennen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "niederbrennen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "leég"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "spalać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "spalić"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sgorétʹ dotlá",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "сгоре́ть дотла́"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "incendiarse"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "brinna ner"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "completely burn so that nothing remains",
"word": "brinna upp"
}
],
"word": "burn down"
}
Download raw JSONL data for burn down meaning in All languages combined (7.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (4ba5975 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.