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fire::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, kindle, provoke, raise |
| Type of | create, make |
| Has types | rekindle, anger, wound, whelm, wake, upset, untune, touch a chord, sweep over, strike a chord, stir up, stir, stimulate, spite, shame, shake up, shake, prick, overwhelm, overtake, overpower, overcome, offend, invite, interest, injure, inflame, infatuate, ignite, hurt, heat, fire up, excite, draw, disconcert, discompose, discomfit, ask for, bruise |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | ardor, ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour |
| Type of | passion, passionateness |
| Has types | zeal |
| Derivation | fiery |
fire::noun | Spocien Dictionary
hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes.
they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire.
fire::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | can, dismiss, displace, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| Type of | remove |
| Has types | send away, clean out, dismiss, drop, furlough, lay off, pension off, retire, send packing, squeeze out |
| Derivation | firing |
The boss fired his secretary today.
fire::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | hearth, open fireplace, fireplace |
| Has types | cookfire |
they sat by the fire and talked.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | drive away, dispel, run off, chase away, turn back, drive out, drive off |
The soldiers were fired.
Surrender fires the cold skepticism.
fire::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | fuel |
put the kettle on the fire.
barbecue over an open fire.
fire::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | element |
fire::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | happening, occurrent, occurrence, natural event |
| Has types | smolder, campfire, conflagration, backfire, balefire, forest fire, grassfire, inferno, prairie fire, smudge, smoulder, brush fire, bonfire |
they lost everything in the fire.
Examples of fire
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This seemed to ignite an unholy fire fueled by political agendas empty of facts.
From the dailyherald.com
This film's one deviation from feel-good feminism is that a man lights the fire.
From the stltoday.com
The city of St. Louis would keep its own mayor and aldermen and fire department.
From the stltoday.com
Deputies were called to a car fire Jan. 2 in the 2500 block of North River Road.
From the stltoday.com
That fire comes out of Hill in a different way when he's on the court with SLUH.
From the stltoday.com
The toll grew six-fold in May, the month of the fire, and reached 2,200 in July.
From the stltoday.com
Strikers marched across the bridge to St. Louis in a prairie fire of resistance.
From the stltoday.com
Nine people were displaced today after a massive house fire in west Polk County.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The state Fire Marshals office initially blamed the fire on an electrical cause.
From the bostonherald.com
- Open fire: start firing a weapon
- The event of something burning (often destructive); "they lost everything in the fire"
- Cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"
- The act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"
- Bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery"
- The process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
- Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products. Slower oxidative processes like rusting or digestion are not included by this definition.
- Fire!! was an African American literary magazine published in 1926 during the Harlem Renaissance. The publication was started by Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas, John P. Davis, Richard Bruce Nugent, Gwendolyn Bennett, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes.
- Fire (Hindi: Phu0101yar u092Bu093Eu092Fu0930) is a 1996 Indian-Canadian romantic drama film written and directed by Deepa Mehta and starring Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das. It is the first installment of Mehta's Elements trilogy; it is succeeded by Earth (1998) and Water (2005).
