burning up

“It wasn’t that we weren’t prepared, ... we can’t stop Mother Nature from burning up the pump.”

The planet's burning up and wars are raging.

The prosecution barrister told the court that Armstrong had said the child was burning up and he was trying to revive her by putting water on her.

“Comets are some of the oldest material in the solar system. So you're seeing some of the oldest pieces of the solar system burning up in the atmosphere of the Earth.”

And those grain-sized debris become “falling stars” as they enter the Earth’s atmosphere at high speed, burning up and producing spectacular streaks of light.