fire
Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses).
Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.
“The boss fired his secretary today”
Cause to go off.
“fire a gun”
“fire a bullet”
Destroy by fire.
Bake in a kiln so as to harden.
“fire pottery”
Drive out or away by or as if by fire.
“The soldiers were fired”
“Surrender fires the cold skepticism”
Generate an electrical impulse.
“the neurons fired fast”
Provide with fuel.
“Oil fires the furnace”
Start firing a weapon.
Go off or discharge.
“The gun fired”
Start or maintain a fire in.
“fire the furnace”
Become ignited.
“The furnace wouldn't fire”
Intense adverse criticism.
“Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party”
A fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning.
“they sat by the fire and talked”
A severe trial.
“he went through fire and damnation”
Fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking.
“put the kettle on the fire”
“barbecue over an open fire”
Once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles).
The event of something burning (often destructive).
“they lost everything in the fire”
The process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke.
“fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries”
Feelings of great warmth and intensity.
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”