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Meaning of burn through | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To use up in a hasty or destructive manner.

transitive

Examples

“Near-synonyms: run through, get through, eat up”

“With a taste for jewels and other extravagances, he also managed to burn through his £535,000 (about £60m by today's standards) inherited estate in just five years, bankrupting himself and dying from tuberculosis at the age of 29.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

burn time burn to a crisp burn up burn-baited burn-beat burn'd