| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| Sounds | fay'er; fay'r |
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| Rhymes | acquire, amplifier, attire, and 57 more rhymes in ayer at the HyperDic website... |
| admire, afire, aspire, and 31 more rhymes in ayr at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | The event of something burning (often destructive). |
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| Examples | "they lost everything in the fire" |
| Narrower | bonfire, balefire; brush fire; campfire; conflagration, inferno; forest fire; grassfire; smoulder; smudge |
| Broader | happening, occurrence, natural event |
| Verbs | fire |
| Meaning | The process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke. |
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| Examples | "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries" |
| Synonyms | flame, flaming |
| Narrower | blaze, blazing; flare |
| Broader | combustion, burning |
| Verbs | fire; fire; fire |
| Meaning | The act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy. |
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| Examples | "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire" |
| Synonyms | firing |
| Narrower | 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 |
| Broader | attack, onslaught, onset, onrush |
| Verbs | fire; fire; fire |
| Meaning | A fireplace in which a fire is burning. |
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| Examples | "they sat by the fire and talked" |
| Narrower | cookfire |
| Broader | fireplace, hearth, open fireplace |
| Verbs | fire |
| Meaning | Intense adverse criticism. |
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| Examples | "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party" |
| Synonyms | attack, flak, flack, blast |
| Broader | criticism, unfavorable judgment |
| Meaning | Feelings of great warmth and intensity. |
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| Synonyms | ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fervidness |
| Narrower | zeal |
| Broader | passion, passionateness |
| Meaning | Once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles). |
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| Broader | element |
| Usage | archaism, archaicism |
| Meaning | A severe trial. |
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| Examples | "he went through fire and damnation" |
| Broader | trial, tribulation, visitation |
| Meaning | Start firing a weapon. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
| Synonyms | open fire |
| Broader | shoot |
| Nouns | fire, firing |
| Meaning | Cause to go off. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet" |
| Synonyms | discharge |
| Cause to | fire, discharge, go off |
| Entailed by | trigger |
| Narrower | pop; loose off, let fly, let drive; shoot; fusillade |
| Nouns | fire; firing |
| Meaning | Bake in a kiln so as to harden. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "fire pottery" |
| Category | cooking, cookery, preparation |
| Entailed by | enamel |
| Broader | bake |
| Nouns | fire |
| Meaning | Terminate the employment of. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE |
| Examples | "The boss fired his secretary today" |
| Synonyms | give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate |
| Narrower | retire; pension off; clean out; furlough, lay off; squeeze out; dismiss, send packing, send away, drop |
| Broader | remove |
| Contrary | hire, engage, employ |
| Nouns | firing |
| Meaning | Go off or discharge. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Examples | "The gun fired" |
| Synonyms | discharge, go off |
| Caused by | fire, discharge |
| Nouns | fire |
| Meaning | Drive out or away by or as if by fire. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism" |
| Broader | chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, dispel, drive off, run off |
| Meaning | Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses). |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Synonyms | arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, raise, provoke |
| Narrower | strike a chord, touch a chord; invite, ask for; draw; rekindle; infatuate; prick; inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat, fire up; stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir; excite; anger; upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit; shame; hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite; overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake; interest |
| Broader | make, create |
| Meaning | Destroy by fire. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
| Model | They fire the trees |
| Synonyms | burn, burn down |
| Entailed by | burn |
| Narrower | backfire; cremate; torch; scorch |
| Broader | destroy, ruin |
| Similar to | burn, combust; burn, incinerate |
| Nouns | fire; fire; fire |
| Meaning | Provide with fuel. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something |
| Examples | "Oil fires the furnace" |
| Synonyms | fuel |
| Broader | supply, provide, render, furnish |
| Nouns | fire |