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Noun fire has 8 senses
- fire - the event of something burning (often destructive); "they lost everything in the fire"
--1 is a kind of happening, occurrence, natural event
--1 has particulars:
- fire, flame, flaming - the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
--2 is a kind of combustion, burning
--2 has particulars: blaze, blazing; flare
- fire, firing - 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"
--3 is a kind of attack, onslaught, onset, onrush
--3 has particulars: | | antiaircraft fire; barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling; broadside; fusillade, salvo, volley, burst; call fire; cover, covering fire; concentrated fire, massed fire; counterfire; counterpreparation fire; crossfire; destruction fire; direct fire; distributed fire; friendly fire, fratricide; hostile fire; grazing fire; harassing fire; indirect fire; interdiction fire; neutralization fire; observed fire; preparation fire; radar fire; registration fire; scheduled fire; searching fire; supporting fire; suppressive fire; unobserved fire; artillery fire, cannon fire |
- fire - a fireplace in which a fire is burning; "they sat by the fire and talked"
--4 is a kind of fireplace, hearth, open fireplace
--4 has particulars: cookfire
- fire, attack, flak, flack, blast - intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"
--5 is a kind of criticism, unfavorable judgment
- ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidness - feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor"
--6 is a kind of passion, passionateness
--6 has particulars: zeal
- fire - once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
--7 is a kind of element
- fire - a severe trial; "he went through fire and damnation"
--8 is a kind of trial, tribulation, visitation
Verb fire has 9 senses
- open fire, fire - start firing a weapon
--1 is one way to shoot
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- fire, discharge - cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- fire - bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery"
--3 is one way to bake
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate - terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
--4 is one way to remove
Antonyms: hire, engage, employ
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
- fire, discharge, go off - go off or discharge; "The gun fired"
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- fire - drive out or away by or as if by fire; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"
--6 is one way to chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, dispel, drive off, run off
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke - call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
--7 is one way to make, create
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- burn, fire, burn down - destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries"
--8 is one way to destroy, ruin
Sample sentence:
They fire the trees
- fuel, fire - provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace"
--9 is one way to supply, provide, render, furnish
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
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