burn up

se consumer, brûler entièrement

Être entièrement détruit par le feu ou la chaleur.

En anglais simple : To be completely destroyed by fire or heat.

• The dry leaves burned up.
• The meteor burned up before reaching the ground.
• Everything in the shed burned up during the fire.

Synonymes : burn away, go up in smoke

Expressions courantes : burn up completely, burn up quickly

brûler entièrement, réduire en cendres

Détruire entièrement quelque chose par le feu ou la chaleur.

En anglais simple : To destroy something completely using fire or heat.

• The fire burned up our tent.
• He burned the old letters up in the stove.
• The engine burns up fuel very quickly.

Comment l'utiliser : burn something up (The fire burned the curtains up.)

Synonymes : burn, incinerate

Expressions courantes : burn up something, burn up paper

avoir une forte fièvre, brûler de fièvre

Avoir une température corporelle très élevée à cause d’une maladie.

En anglais simple : To have a very high body temperature because you are ill.

• The baby is burning up.
• He was burning up with a fever last night.
• Feel her forehead; she’s burning up again.

Synonymes : have a high fever

Expressions courantes : burn up overnight, burn up again

crever de chaud, brûler

Avoir extrêmement chaud ou sentir sa peau brûlante et douloureuse.

En anglais simple : To feel extremely hot or have skin that feels hot and sore.

• I’m burning up in this coat.
• We were burning up in the crowded room.
• Her face was burning up after hours in the sun.

Synonymes : swelter, overheat

Contraires : cool down

Expressions courantes : burn up inside, burn up outside

énerver, exaspérer

Mettre quelqu’un très en colère ou l’agacer fortement.

En anglais simple : To make someone very angry or annoyed.

• That rude comment really burned me up.
• It burns her up when people cheat.
• Does their unfair treatment burn you up too?

Comment l'utiliser : burn someone up (His constant excuses burn me up.)

Synonymes : anger, annoy, infuriate

Contraires : calm

Expressions courantes : burn up someone, burn up drivers

bouillir de colère, enrager

Se sentir très en colère ou très irrité.

En anglais simple : To feel very angry or annoyed.

• He was burning up inside.
• She burned up with anger after the insult.
• Are you still burning up over what they said?

Comment l'utiliser : burn up over something (She was burning up over the unfair decision.)

Synonymes : fume, seethe

Contraires : calm down

Expressions courantes : burn up inside, burn up over something