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burn through (third-person singular simple present burns through, present participle burning through, simple past and past participle burned through or burnt through)

  1. (transitive) To use up in a hasty or destructive manner.
    Coordinate terms: burn away, burn off, burn up
    • 2023 November 13, Rosalind Jana, “Saltburn and the bizarre life of Britain's stately homes”, in BBC[1]:
      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.