fire
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(verb) Bake in a kiln; "fire pottery" |
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Related Words: bake |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: firing |
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Related Words: antiaircraft fire, artillery fire, attack, barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment, broadside, burst, call fire, cannon fire, concentrated fire, counterfire, counterpreparation fire, cover, covering fire, crossfire, destruction fire, direct fire, distributed fire, flak, fusillade, grazing fire, harassing fire, indirect fire, interdiction fire, massed fire, neutralization fire, observed fire, onrush, onset, onslaught, preparation fire, radar fire, registration fire, salvo, scheduled fire, searching fire, shelling, supporting fire, suppressive fire, unobserved fire, volley |
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(verb) cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet" |
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Synonyms: discharge |
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Related Words: fusillade, let drive, let fly, loose off, pop, shoot |
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(verb) go off or discharge; "The gun fired" |
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Synonyms: discharge, go off |
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Related Words: explode |
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(verb) drive out or away by or as if by fire; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism" |
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Related Words: chase away, dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back |
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(verb) terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today" |
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Synonyms: can, dismiss, force out, give notice, give the axe, sack, send away, terminate |
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Related Words: clean out, dismiss, drive out, drop, furlough, lay off, pension off, remove, retire, send away, send packing, squeeze out |
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Antonyms: hire |
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(noun) a fireplace in which a fire is burning; "they sat by the fire and talked" |
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Related Words: cookfire, fireplace, hearth, open fireplace |
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(noun) intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at Jesse Helms" |
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Synonyms: attack, blast, flak |
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Related Words: criticism, unfavorable judgment |
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(noun) the event of something burning (often destructive); "they lost everything in the fire" |
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Related Words: balefire, bonfire, brush fire, campfire, conflagration, forest fire, grassfire, happening, inferno, natural event, occurrence, smoulder, smudge |
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(noun) a severe trial; "he went through fire and damnation" |
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Related Words: trial, tribulation, visitation |
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(noun) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries" |
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Synonyms: flame, flaming |
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Related Words: blaze, blazing, burning, combustion, flare |
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(noun) (archaic) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe |
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Related Words: element |
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(verb) destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries" |
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Synonyms: burn, burn down |
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Related Words: backfire, cremate, destroy, ruin, torch |
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(verb) start firing a weapon |
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Synonyms: open fire |
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Related Words: shoot |
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(verb) provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace" |
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Synonyms: fuel |
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Related Words: furnish, provide, render, supply |
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(verb) call forth; of emotions, feelings, and responses; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" |
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Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, kindle, provoke, raise |
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Related Words: anger, ask for, create, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, draw, excite, fire up, heat, hurt, ignite, infatuate, inflame, injure, interest, invite, make, offend, overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, prick, rekindle, shake, shake up, shame, spite, stimulate, stir, stir up, sweep over, untune, upset, whelm, wound |
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(noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor" |
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Synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour |
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Related Words: passion, passionateness, zeal |
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