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