DICTOMETER

FIRING

(fire, firing, disparar, fuego, hoguera, incendio, lumbre, pasión, brann, bål, fyre av, ild, lidenskap, skyte, varme)

1. Synonyms:
   • Fire
   • Firing
   Definitions:
   • the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
   Examples:
   • Hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes
   • They retreated in the face of withering enemy fire
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Discharge
   • Firing
   • Firing off
   Definitions:
   • the act of discharging a gun
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Ignition
   • Firing
   • Lighting
   • Kindling
   • Inflammation
   Definitions:
   • the act of setting something on fire
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Dismissal
   • Dismission
   • Discharge
   • Firing
   • Liberation
   • Release
   • Sack
   • Sacking
   Definitions:
   • the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Open fire
   • Fire
   Definitions:
   • start firing a weapon
   Antonyms:
   hire, engage, employ
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Fire
   • Discharge
   Definitions:
   • cause to go off
   Examples:
   • Fire a gun
   • Fire a bullet
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Fire
   Definitions:
   • bake in a kiln so as to harden
   Examples:
   • Fire pottery
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Displace
   • Fire
   • Give notice
   • Can
   • Dismiss
   • Give the axe
   • Send away
   • Sack
   • Force out
   • Give the sack
   • Terminate
   Definitions:
   • terminate the employment of
   • discharge from an office or position
   Examples:
   • The boss fired his secretary today
   • The company terminated 25% of its workers
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Fire
   • Discharge
   • Go off
   Definitions:
   • go off or discharge
   Examples:
   • The gun fired
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Fire
   Definitions:
   • drive out or away by or as if by fire
   Examples:
   • The soldiers were fired
   • Surrender fires the cold skepticism
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Arouse
   • Elicit
   • Enkindle
   • Kindle
   • Evoke
   • Fire
   • Raise
   • Provoke
   Definitions:
   • call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
   Examples:
   • Arouse pity
   • Raise a smile
   • Evoke sympathy
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Burn
   • Fire
   • Burn down
   Definitions:
   • destroy by fire
   Examples:
   • They burned the house and his diaries
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Fuel
   • Fire
   Definitions:
   • provide with fuel
   Examples:
   • Oil fires the furnace