Burned up
Ended and burned up are semantically related. in not present topic. In some cases you can use "Ended" instead an adjective "Burned up".
Both terms in one sentence
- In a 1998 User Friendly cartoon where Irwin ended up in the computer system of the space station Mir, he said at one point "I can barely believe this thing stays up." Two years later, the station was decommissioned, deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere.
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In one book, a villain needed to get to the ISS, so he created a portal into orbit... but probably forgot to carry the 2 in calculating the destination, and ended up floating in space, helpless (the Others need humans nearby in order to use magic), until he burned up on re-entry.
Source: Thinking Up Portals
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Ended and Burned up. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/burned_up/ended
Burned up & Ended. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/burned_up/ended>.
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