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fire
verb(fire)
call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, kindle, provoke, raise,
fire
verb(fire)
provide with fuel
Synonyms: fuel,
Examples:
Oil fires the furnace.
fire
verb(fire)
start firing a weapon
Synonyms: open fire,
fire
verb(fire)
go off or discharge
Synonyms: discharge, go off,
Examples:
The gun fired.
fire
noun(fire)
the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke
Synonyms: flame, flaming,
Examples:
Fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries.
fire
verb(fire)
start or maintain a fire in
Synonyms: ignite, light,
Examples:
Fire the furnace.
fire
noun(fire)
feelings of great warmth and intensity
Synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour,
fire
verb(fire)
become ignited
Synonyms: flame up,
Examples:
The furnace wouldn't fire.
fire
noun(fire)
the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
Synonyms: firing,
Examples:
Hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes.
They retreated in the face of withering enemy fire.
fire
noun(fire)
intense adverse criticism
Synonyms: attack, blast, flack, flak,
Examples:
Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party.
fire
verb(fire)
terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate,
Antonyms: hire,
Examples:
The boss fired his secretary today.
fire
verb(fire)
cause to go off
Synonyms: discharge,
Examples:
Fire a gun.
Fire a bullet.
fire
verb(fire)
destroy by fire
Synonyms: burn, burn down,
fire
noun(fire)
a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning
Examples:
They sat by the fire and talked.
fire
noun(fire)
a severe trial
Examples:
He went through fire and damnation.
fire
verb(fire)
bake in a kiln so as to harden
Examples:
Fire pottery.
fire
verb(fire)
drive out or away by or as if by fire
Examples:
The soldiers were fired.
Surrender fires the cold skepticism.
fire
noun(fire)
fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking
Examples:
Put the kettle on the fire.
Barbecue over an open fire.
fire
verb(fire)
generate an electrical impulse
Examples:
The neurons fired fast.
fire
noun(fire)
once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
fire
noun(fire)
the event of something burning (often destructive)
Examples:
They lost everything in the fire.

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