verb
- Start firing a weapon.
- Cause to go off.
- usage: "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"
- Bake in a kiln so as to harden.
- usage: "fire pottery"
- synonyms: fire
- Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.
- usage: "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
- synonyms: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
- Go off or discharge.
- usage: "The gun fired"
- Drive out or away by or as if by fire.
- usage: "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"
- synonyms: fire
- Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses. )
- usage: "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
- Destroy by fire.
- usage: "They burned the house and his diaries"
- Provide with fuel.
- usage: "Oil fires the furnace"
adjective
- Having lost your job.
- synonyms: discharged, dismissed, laid-off, pink-slipped
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