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  Words related to fire

Related / Similar Words: firing, attack, flak, flack, blast, ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fervidness, flame, flaming, burn, burn down, discharge, go off, open fire, arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, raise, provoke, fuel, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate


  • a fireplace in which a fire is burning; "they sat by the fire and talked";
  • intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don''t give me any flak";
  • the event of something burning (often destructive); "they lost everything in the fire";
  • a severe trial; "he went through fire and damnation";
  • feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor";
  • the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors'' first discoveries";
  • once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles);
  • bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery";
  • destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries";
  • cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet";
  • go off or discharge; "The gun fired";
  • start firing a weapon;
  • provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace";

    Hyponyms: 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, cookfire, bonfire, balefire, brush fire, campfire, conflagration, inferno, forest fire, grassfire, smoulder, smudge, zeal, blaze, blazing, flare, backfire, cremate, torch, scorch, pop, loose off, let fly, let drive, shoot, 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, anger, upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit, shame, hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite, overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake, interest, retire, pension off, clean out, furlough, lay off, squeeze out, dismiss, send packing, send away, drop


    Grouped Verbs: burn, combust, incinerate


    Derivational Morphology: open fire, discharge, go off, burn, burn down, attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault, flame, fuel, flaming, burn mark, firing, firing off, incitement, incitation, provocation, evocation, induction, elicitation, arousal, rousing, dismissal, dismission, liberation, release, sack, sacking


    Anagrams: rife


    Language Translations:
    Afrikaans: bak and ontslaan and vuur   Albanian: zjarr  
    Armenian: կրակ and հրդեհ and վառարան   Basque: su  
    Bosnian: peć and vatra   Bulgarian: огън and печка and пожар and стрелям and уволнявам  
    Catalan: foc and incendi   Croatian: peć and požar and vatra  
    Danish: affyre and brand and fyre and ild and opvarme and ovn   Dutch: afvuren and bakken and brand and ontslaan and vuren and vuur  
    Esperanto: brulego and fajro   Finnish: antaa potkut and liesi and polttaa and tuli and tulipalo and tulittaa  
    French: cuire and feu and incendie and licencier and poêle and tirer   Frisian: brân and dien jaan and fjoer and sjitte  
    Galician: lume   German: abfeuern and brennen and Feuer and feuern and Ofen  
    Greek: φωτιά and θερμάστρα   Hindi: आग  
    Hungarian: kályha and kirúg and tüzel and tűz   Icelandic: eldur and ofn  
    Indonesian: api   Irish: tine  
    Italian: fuoco and incendio and licenziare and sparare and stufa   Japanese: ストーブ and and 火事 and 発射 and  
    Korean: and 큰불 and 화덕   Kurdish: agir  
    Latin: focus and ignis and incendium   Latvian: degšana and uguns  
    Malay: api and bahan and kebakaran   Malayalam: തീ  
    Maltese: nar   Norwegian: avfyre and bål and brann and brenne and fyre and gi sparken and ild and ovn  
    Novial: faire   Polish: ogień and piec and pożar and żar  
    Portuguese: cozinhar and despedir and disparar and fogão and fogo and incêndio   Romanian: foc and sobă  
    Russian: горение and обжигать and огонь and печь and пожар and стрелять and увольнять   Slovak: kachle and oheň  
    Slovene: odpustiti and ogenj and peč and požar and ustreliti and žgati   Spanish: cocer and despedir and disparar and estufa and fuego and incendio  
    Swahili: kupiga risasi and moto   Swedish: avfyra and brasa and bränna and eld and skjuta and sparka and spis  
    Telugu: ఉద్యోగం నుండి తొలగించు and కాల్చు and మంట   Turkish: ateş and ocak  
    Ukrainian: вогонь and піч   Vietnamese: hỏa and lửa and vụ  
    Welsh: diswyddo and saethu and stof and tanio and tân  
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