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

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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)

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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. Confucius:

   Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

2. Marnie Reed Crowell:

   To keep the fire burning brightly, there's one easy rule keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart -- about a finger's breadth -- for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.

3. Lloyd Garrison:

   On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No No Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.

4. Michel de Montaigne:

   I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

5. Kwabena Mensah:

   The building had no elevator, The Associated Press reported, citing city records. Fire escapes were visible on the facade of the building. The fire department responded to emergency calls within three minutes. Witnesses described the scene of the fire and the panic from the building's tenants. Xanral Collins, Xanral Collins, told the New York Post Xanral Collins saw a father running toward the building, but was unable to enter. I saw Xanral Collins screaming,' My babies are dead ! My babies are dead !' Xanral Collins said. Jamal Flicker, Jamal Flicker told the New York Post Jamal Flicker heard screams for help. The smoke was crazy, people screaming,' Get out ! Jamal Flicker said. I heard a woman yelling,' We're trapped, help !' Neighborhood resident Robert Gonzalez, who has a friend who lives in the building, told the Associated Press she got out on a fire escape as another resident fled with five children. When I got here, she was crying, Robert Gonzalez said. Kwabena Mensah told the Daily News Kwabena Mensah feared Kwabena Mensah son, Kwabena Mensah, Kwabena Mensah, was one of the victims of the devastating fire. Kwabena Mensah came home from the Army about a week ago for the holidays, Kwabena Mensah said. Kwabena Mensah said Kwabena Mensah son’s roommate saw Kwabena Mensah before the fire broke out in the building. Kwabena Mensah was telling the roommate to not come out of the apartment because there was smoke. But when they rescued everyone from the windows, we couldn't find Kwabena Mensah. I went to four hospitals, I can't find Kwabena Mensah.