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fire

English

  1. 🔊 the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
    “hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes”
  2. 🔊 a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning
    “they sat by the fire and talked”
  3. 🔊 intense adverse criticism
    “Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party”
  4. 🔊 the event of something burning (often destructive)
    “they lost everything in the fire”
  5. 🔊 a severe trial
    “he went through fire and damnation”
  6. 🔊 the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke
    “fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries”
  7. 🔊 fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking
    “put the kettle on the fire”
  8. 🔊 once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
  9. 🔊 feelings of great warmth and intensity
    “he spoke with great ardor”
  10. 🔊 bake in a kiln so as to harden
    “fire pottery”
  11. 🔊 start or maintain a fire in
    “fire the furnace”
  12. 🔊 become ignited
    “The furnace wouldn't fire”
  13. 🔊 cause to go off
    “fire a gun”
  14. 🔊 go off or discharge
    “The gun fired”
  15. 🔊 generate an electrical impulse
    “the neurons fired fast”
  16. 🔊 drive out or away by or as if by fire
    “The soldiers were fired”
  17. 🔊 destroy by fire
    “They burned the house and his diaries”
  18. 🔊 start firing a weapon
  19. 🔊 provide with fuel
    “Oil fires the furnace”
  20. 🔊 terminate the employment of
    “The boss fired his secretary today”
  21. 🔊 call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
    “arouse pity”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 fuego fire
  2. 🔊 candela fire, light
  3. 🔊 botar to fire, dismiss
  4. 🔊 acicatear to fire, to spark
  5. 🔊 cesantear to fire, to dismiss, to sack
  6. 🔊 descargar to fire, discharge (a weapon)
  7. 🔊 echar to fire, dismiss (to terminate employment)

Similar words

firing attack flak flack blast ardor ardour fervor fervour fervency fervidness flame flaming burn burn down light ignite flame up discharge discharge go off open fire arouse elicit