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Definitions of fire
  1. verb
    call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
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  2. verb
    provide with fuel
    "Oil fires the furnace"

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  3. verb
    start firing a weapon

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  4. verb
    go off or discharge
    "The gun fired"

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  5. 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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  6. verb
    start or maintain a fire in
    "fire the furnace"

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  7. noun
    feelings of great warmth and intensity
  8. verb
    become ignited
    "The furnace wouldn't fire"

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  9. 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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  10. noun
    intense adverse criticism
    "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"

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  11. verb
    terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
    "The boss fired his secretary today"
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  12. verb
    cause to go off
    "fire a gun" "fire a bullet"

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  13. verb
    destroy by fire

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  14. noun
    a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning
    "they sat by the fire and talked"
  15. noun
    a severe trial
    "he went through fire and damnation"
  16. verb
    bake in a kiln so as to harden
    "fire pottery"
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  17. verb
    drive out or away by or as if by fire
    "The soldiers were fired" "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"
  18. noun
    fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking
    "put the kettle on the fire" "barbecue over an open fire"
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  19. verb
    generate an electrical impulse
    "the neurons fired fast"
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  20. noun
    once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
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  21. noun
    the event of something burning (often destructive)
    "they lost everything in the fire"
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