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fired

 
Adjective fired has 1 sense
  1. discharged, dismissed, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped - having lost your job
    Antonym: employed (indirect, via unemployed)
Verb fire has 9 senses
  1. open fire, fire - start firing a weapon
    --1 is one way to shoot
    Derived forms: noun fire3, noun firing1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
  2. fire, discharge - cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"
    Derived forms: noun fire3, noun firing2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. fire - bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery"
    --3 is one way to
    bake
    Derived form: noun fire2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate - terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
    --4 is one way to remove
    Antonyms: hire, engage, employ
    Derived form: noun firing4
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
  5. fire, discharge, go off - go off or discharge; "The gun fired"
    Derived form: noun fire3
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  6. fire - drive out or away by or as if by fire; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"
    --6 is one way to
    chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, dispel, drive off, run off
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  7. arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke - call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
    --7 is one way to make, create
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  8. burn, fire, burn down - destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries"
    --8 is one way to destroy, ruin
    Derived forms: noun fire4, noun fire2, noun fire1
    Sample sentence:
    They fire the trees
  9. fuel, fire - provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace"
    --9 is one way to supply, provide, render, furnish
    Derived form: noun fire2
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
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