burn through
verb1
To use up in a hasty or destructive manner.
- 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 29.2023 November 13, Rosalind Jana, “Saltburn and the bizarre life of Britain's stately homes”, in BBC: