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Fired

adjective

Having lost your job. Synonyms: discharged, dismissed, laid-off, pink-slipped.

Fire

verb

(past & past part. fired; pres. part. fring)

Start firing a weapon. Synonym: open fire.

Cause to go off. Synonym: discharge. "Fire a bullet"

Bake in a kiln so as to harden.

Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position. Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate. "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

Go off or discharge. Synonyms: discharge, go off.

Drive out or away by or as if by fire. "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"

Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses). Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, kindle, provoke, raise. "Raise a smile" , "Evoke sympathy"

Destroy by fire. Synonyms: burn, burn down.

Provide with fuel. Synonym: fuel.

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... assailants were sheltered from view by the trees and shrubs that skirted the hill, they approached without being discovered: but the moment they became uncovered, on getting nearer to the walls, shouts of alarm and shots fired by the sentries summoned the garrison to the defence; and an irregular fusillade was commenced from the azotea of ...

— The Tiger Hunter • Mayne Reid

... them in so authoritative a manner, appeared to produce no effect, they took courage, and, turning about, made faces at me and an insulting noise which was meant to imitate the snapping of the gun. Their inimical intentions now became more manifest; I however ran at them again, and fired my second barrel over their heads, which caused a rapid retreat; but they halted on a rising ground about three hundred yards from us, and finding on the muster of their forces that they had sustained no damage, they ...

— Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2) • George Grey

... concerned the numbers anyhow are so small that their appearance will not fit into any scheme of averages. That is, two or three might appear together, just as the two or three balls nearest the target centre might be fired consecutively. Take longer epochs and more firing, and the great geniuses and near balls would on the ...

— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James

... far the greater part of them sham), and a Gothic door, almost too small to get in at.... On Sundays he ran up a real flag.... The bridge was a plank, and it crossed a chasm about four feet wide and two deep.... At nine o'clock every night "the gun fired," the gun being mounted in a separate fortress made of lattice-work. It was protected from the weather by a tarpaulin ... umbrella.— C. ...

— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.

... as they advanced they fired their rifles into the German lines. True they could only now and then catch a glimpse of the foe, but they made those ...

— The Khaki Boys Over the Top - Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam • Gordon Bates

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