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Fired   /fˈaɪərd/   Listen
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Fire  v. t.  (past & past part. fired; pres. part. fring)  
1.
To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.
2.
To subject to intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln; as, to fire pottery.
3.
To inflame; to irritate, as the passions; as, to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge. "Love had fired my mind."
4.
To animate; to give life or spirit to; as, to fire the genius of a young man.
5.
To feed or serve the fire of; as, to fire a boiler.
6.
To light up as if by fire; to illuminate. "(The sun) fires the proud tops of the eastern pines."
7.
To cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a rifle, pistol, or cannon; to fire cannon balls, rockets, etc.
8.
To drive by fire. (Obs.) "Till my bad angel fire my good one out."
9.
(Far.) To cauterize.
10.
To dismiss from employment, a post, or other job; to cause (a person) to cease being an employee; of a person. The act of firing is usually performed by that person's supervisor or employer. "You can't fire me! I quit!"
To fire up,
1.
to light up the fires of, as of an engine; also, figuratively, to start up any machine.
2.
to render enthusiastic; of people.


Fire  v. i.  
1.
To take fire; to be kindled; to kindle.
2.
To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
3.
To discharge artillery or firearms; as, they fired on the town.
To fire up, to grow irritated or angry. "He... fired up, and stood vigorously on his defense."





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"Fired" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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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