Synonyms for fire
faɪərfire

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1. fireverb

   Synonyms:
   set on fire

2. fireverb

   Synonyms:
   shoot, let off, loose, open fire

3. fireverb

   Synonyms:
   dismiss, cards, heave-ho, throw out, redundant, sack, give the elbow, let go, give the boot

4. fireverb

   One of the four basic elements.

   Antonyms:
   hire

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1. fire

   Combustion is the essential fact which is at the basis of that assemblage of visible phenomenon which we call fire; combustion being the continuous chemical combination of a substance with some element, as oxygen, evolving heat, and extending from slow processes, such as those by which the heat of the human body is maintained, to the processes producing the most intense light also, as in a blast-furnace, or on the surface of the sun. Fire is always attended with light, as well as heat; blaze, flame, etc., designate the mingled light and heat of a fire. Combustion is the scientific, fire the popular term. A conflagration is an extensive fire. Compare LIGHT.

   Synonyms:
   blaze, burning, combustion, conflagration, flame

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1. firenoun

   the event of something burning (often destructive)

   "they lost everything in the fire"

   Synonyms:
   fervidness, fervour, ardor, attack, blast, flaming, flak, fervor, firing, fervency, flack, ardour, flame

   Antonyms:
   hire, engage, employ

2. fire, firingnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   dismissal, fervor, ignition, firing, fervency, lighting, firing off, dismission, inflammation, sack, attack, discharge, release, ardour, sacking, liberation, fervour, flame, fervidness, ardor, kindling, flaming, flak, flack, blast

   Antonyms:
   employ, hire, engage

3. fire, flame, flamingnoun

   the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke

   "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"

   Synonyms:
   fervidness, fervour, ardor, attack, blast, flaming, flak, fervor, firing, fervency, flack, ardour, flame

   Antonyms:
   engage, hire, employ

4. firenoun

   a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning

   "they sat by the fire and talked"

   Synonyms:
   fervidness, fervour, ardor, attack, blast, flaming, flak, fervor, firing, fervency, flack, ardour, flame

   Antonyms:
   hire, employ, engage

5. firenoun

   once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)

   Synonyms:
   fervidness, fervour, ardor, attack, blast, flaming, flak, fervor, firing, fervency, flack, ardour, flame

   Antonyms:
   hire, engage, employ

6. ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidnessnoun

   feelings of great warmth and intensity

   "he spoke with great ardor"

   Synonyms:
   fervor, firing, fervency, flaming, flack, inflammation, zeal, excitement, excitation, fervour, flame, blast, fervidness, ardor, elan, flak, attack, ardour

   Antonyms:
   hire, engage, employ

7. firenoun

   fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking

   "put the kettle on the fire"; "barbecue over an open fire"

   Synonyms:
   fervidness, fervour, ardor, attack, blast, flaming, flak, fervor, firing, fervency, flack, ardour, flame

   Antonyms:
   hire, employ, engage

8. firenoun

   a severe trial

   "he went through fire and damnation"

   Synonyms:
   fervidness, fervour, ardor, attack, blast, flaming, flak, fervor, firing, fervency, flack, ardour, flame

   Antonyms:
   engage, hire, employ

9. fire, attack, flak, flack, blastverb

   intense adverse criticism

   "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"

   Synonyms:
   ardour, antiaircraft gun, flaming, fervour, ardor, flak, tone-beginning, antiaircraft, onslaught, attempt, blow, fervidness, flak catcher, bam, onset, flack catcher, flack, clap, flame, ack-ack gun, eruption, attack, gust, ack-ack, approach, firing, onrush, fervency, blast, bang, fervor, pom-pom, plan of attack, good time

   Antonyms:
   hire, employ, engage

10. open fire, fireverb

    start firing a weapon

    Synonyms:
    send away, kindle, raise, fuel, provoke, burn down, burn, open fire, sack, terminate, discharge, give the sack, force out, enkindle, dismiss, displace, can, evoke, elicit, give notice, go off, give the axe, arouse

    Antonyms:
    hire, employ, engage

11. fire, dischargeverb

    cause to go off

    "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"

    Synonyms:
    unload, exhaust, kindle, dispatch, complete, expel, go off, give the axe, burn, assoil, can, provoke, drop off, empty, enkindle, give the sack, sack, set down, elicit, fuel, arouse, give notice, open fire, displace, exculpate, dismiss, release, raise, clear, put down, acquit, burn down, drop, discharge, evoke, exonerate, free, force out, eject, terminate, muster out, send away

    Antonyms:
    hire, engage, employ

12. fireverb

    bake in a kiln so as to harden

    "fire pottery"

    Synonyms:
    send away, kindle, raise, fuel, provoke, burn down, burn, open fire, sack, terminate, discharge, give the sack, force out, enkindle, dismiss, displace, can, evoke, elicit, give notice, go off, give the axe, arouse

    Antonyms:
    engage, hire, employ

13. displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminateverb

    terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

    "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

    Synonyms:
    throw out, kindle, notify, depose, advise, gouge, go off, give the axe, burn, tin, can, apprize, rout out, plunder, enkindle, give the sack, put up, sack, end, give the bounce, evict, elicit, discount, finish, move, stop, arouse, drive out, crowd out, brush off, squeeze out, give notice, open fire, usher out, displace, send packing, send word, apprise, dissolve, push aside, dismiss, give the gate, raise, clear, ignore, provoke, sack up, burn down, cease, squirt, rouse, brush aside, discharge, evoke, fuel, force out, preempt, eject, terminate, disregard, drop, send away, net

    Antonyms:
    engage, hire, employ

14. fire, discharge, go offverb

    go off or discharge

    "The gun fired"

    Synonyms:
    unload, exhaust, kindle, absquatulate, dispatch, complete, expel, go off, give the axe, burn, assoil, can, provoke, go over, drop off, empty, enkindle, give the sack, sack, set down, decamp, bolt, elicit, fuel, arouse, give notice, open fire, displace, implode, exculpate, abscond, dismiss, release, raise, clear, put down, acquit, burn down, drop, discharge, evoke, exonerate, free, force out, make off, eject, terminate, muster out, send away, come off, run off

    Antonyms:
    engage, employ, hire

15. fireverb

    drive out or away by or as if by fire

    "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"

    Synonyms:
    send away, kindle, raise, fuel, provoke, burn down, burn, open fire, sack, terminate, discharge, give the sack, force out, enkindle, dismiss, displace, can, evoke, elicit, give notice, go off, give the axe, arouse

    Antonyms:
    engage, hire, employ

16. arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provokeverb

    call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

    "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"

    Synonyms:
    elevate, resurrect, force out, provoke, beset, send away, awake, levy, call forth, chivy, kick upstairs, give the sack, suggest, stimulate, lift, heighten, harry, upgrade, educe, dismiss, kick up, leaven, chivvy, bring up, rouse, invoke, raise, wind up, recruit, inflame, chevvy, farm, extract, excite, grow, conjure, upraise, give the axe, prove, awaken, chevy, conjure up, conflagrate, molest, go off, displace, plague, wake, waken, turn on, enhance, give notice, terminate, fuel, arouse, wake up, can, sack, advance, perk up, stir, burn, burn down, put forward, sex, enkindle, evoke, rear, harass, draw out, set up, elicit, nurture, parent, energize, produce, erect, discharge, kindle, put up, promote, hassle, open fire, brace, energise, paint a picture, get up, call down, come alive

    Antonyms:
    hire, employ, engage

17. burn, fire, burn downverb

    destroy by fire

    "They burned the house and his diaries"

    Synonyms:
    kindle, evoke, bite, sack, give the axe, burn, dismiss, go off, go up, enkindle, give the sack, cut, glow, elicit, burn up, terminate, combust, arouse, give notice, open fire, displace, sting, send away, raise, sunburn, provoke, can, burn down, cauterize, incinerate, discharge, burn off, fuel, force out, cauterise

    Antonyms:
    hire, employ, engage

18. fuel, fireverb

    provide with fuel

    "Oil fires the furnace"

    Synonyms:
    send away, kindle, raise, fuel, provoke, burn down, burn, open fire, sack, terminate, discharge, give the sack, force out, enkindle, dismiss, displace, can, evoke, elicit, give notice, go off, give the axe, arouse

    Antonyms:
    hire, engage, employ

Matched Categories

1. • Attack
   • Bake
   • Combustion
   • Cookery
   • Create
   • Drive Out
   • Element
   • Fireplace
   • Fuel
   • Happening
   • Supply
   • Trial

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. firenoun

   Synonyms:
   conflagration

2. firenoun

   Synonyms:
   heat, ardor, fervor

3. firenoun

   Synonyms:
   [Poetical.] light, lustre, radiance

4. fireverb

   Synonyms:
   kindle, set on fire

5. fireverb

   Synonyms:
   animate, excite, inspirit, rouse, inflame, stir up

6. fireverb

   Synonyms:
   discharge, fire off

7. fireverb

   Synonyms:
   take fire, be kindled

8. fireverb

   Synonyms:
   discharge a gun, discharge firearms

9. fireverb

   Synonyms:
   incendiary, political agitator

10. fireverb

    Synonyms:
    glow-worm (lampyris noctilucus)

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. firenoun

   Synonyms:
   combustion, ignition, burning, phlogiston, conflagration, holocaust, deflagration, flame, blaze, bonfire, balefire, feu de joie, beacon

   Associated words:
   pyrology, pyrography, pyromania, pyrophobia, incendiary, incendiarism, arson, lurid, moloch, fuel, combustible, pyroleter, smolder, ignis fatuus, vulcan, hephæstus

2. fireverb

   Synonyms:
   ignite, kindle, (Slang) discharge, dismiss, inflame, irritate, arouse, excite, incite, animate, quicken, vitalize, enthuse, inspirit, stoke, bake, burn, torrefy

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1. List of paraphrases for "fire":

   lamp, fires, shooting, firing, gunfire, blaze, tir, fuego, firefighting, cease-fire, feu, burning, lamps, firefighters, arson, eld, wildfire, fire-fighting, ceasefire, shoot, flame, firepower, light, fired, shot, flre, torpedo, brand, firefighter, bonfire, stove, firemen, litmus, ablaze, pull, wildfires, -boom

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1. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich:

   The basis and power of evil in egoism is the great destructive lie of evil, it gives strength to money, because of it, hidden and open meaningless wars between people will never end. The wars of different minds will never end, it looks like Uncle Ho's tavern in the middle of a bamboo forest, and every mind is there, they all fight among themselves in different styles, all kinds of martial arts: Kong fu, Wushu styles: tiger, monkey, praying mantis, panda, crane, snakes, dragon, Drunken Master Style emitting a drunken fire breath, dexterously wielding a bamboo stick for battle, Aikido, Karate, Boxing, Wrestling, Taekwondo, Sambo, Sumo, Muay Thai, Jiu-Jitsu, Fencing, Wrestling, Capoeira, as well as Samurai, Ninja, and arm wrestling theories, etc., with words and actions, we senselessly fight each other, all these are children of selfishness that leads us to cannibalism, only the words of the Lord God are truth, which must be correctly understood and understood, the rest is childish babble of the human race. Nazism and racism, homosexuality, and lesbianism, feminism and sexism, all this is inherent only in animals, but not in humans, all people are brothers and sisters who should love and appreciate each other as we all descended from Adam and Eve. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

2. Petra Kvitova:

   I need to play my best tennis, what I can say. I think Naomi is on fire. She's in very good form, she's an aggressive player, which I am, as well. So I think it will be about who gon na take the first point and push the other a little bit.

3. White House:

   Refusing to evacuate to the rear despite his severe wounds, he directed the operation of his lone field piece continuing to fire in the face of the enemy, with the rebels within 100 yards of his position, Cushing was shot and killed during this heroic stand. His actions made it possible for the Union Army to successfully repulse the Confederate assault.

4. Sheriff Cecil Cantrell:

   We're just a mess here. It's a really serious situation. We've got all our deputies out. We've got all the fire departments out. I wasn't expecting this. it's raining so hard now you can't see. It's a terrible situation. I hope the good Lord lets it stop raining for a while.

5. Hannah More:

   One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.