| fire | | |
| n. (event) | 1. fire | the event of something burning (often destructive).; "they lost everything in the fire" |
| ~ happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent | an event that happens. |
| ~ backfire | a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path. |
| ~ balefire, bonfire | a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration. |
| ~ brush fire | an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes. |
| ~ campfire | a small outdoor fire for warmth or cooking (as at a camp). |
| ~ conflagration, inferno | a very intense and uncontrolled fire. |
| ~ forest fire | an uncontrolled fire in a wooded area. |
| ~ grassfire, prairie fire | an uncontrolled fire in a grassy area. |
| ~ smolder, smoulder | a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame.; "the smoulder suddenly became a blaze" |
| ~ smudge | a smoky fire to drive away insects. |
| n. (act) | 2. fire, firing | 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" |
| ~ attack, onrush, onset, onslaught | (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons).; "the attack began at dawn" |
| ~ antiaircraft fire | firing at enemy aircraft. |
| ~ barrage fire, shelling, barrage, bombardment, battery | the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target.; "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing" |
| ~ broadside | the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship. |
| ~ fusillade, volley, burst, salvo | rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms.; "our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise" |
| ~ call fire | fire delivered on a specific target in response to a request from the supported unit. |
| ~ covering fire, cover | fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations.; "artillery provided covering fire for the withdrawal" |
| ~ concentrated fire, massed fire | fire from two or more weapons directed at a single target or area (as fire by batteries of two or more warships). |
| ~ counterfire | fire intended to neutralize or destroy enemy weapons. |
| ~ counterpreparation fire | intensive prearranged fire delivered when the immanence of enemy attack is discovered. |
| ~ crossfire | fire from two or more points so that the lines of fire cross. |
| ~ destruction fire | fire delivered for the sole purpose of destroying material objects. |
| ~ direct fire | fire delivered on a target that is visible to the person aiming it. |
| ~ distributed fire | fire dispersed so as to engage effectively an area target. |
| ~ friendly fire, fratricide | fire that injures or kills an ally. |
| ~ hostile fire | fire that injures or kills an enemy. |
| ~ grazing fire | fire approximately parallel to the ground; the center of the cone of fire does rise above 1 meter from the ground. |
| ~ harassing fire | fire designed to disturb the rest of enemy troops and to curtail movement and to lower enemy morale. |
| ~ indirect fire | fire delivered on a target that is not itself used as the point of aim for the weapons. |
| ~ interdiction fire | fire directed to an area to prevent the enemy from using that area. |
| ~ neutralization fire | fire that is delivered in order to render the target ineffective or unusable. |
| ~ observed fire | fire for which the point of impact (the burst) can be seen by an observer; fire can be adjusted on the basis of the observations. |
| ~ preparation fire | fire delivered on a target in preparation for an assault. |
| ~ radar fire | gunfire aimed a target that is being tracked by radar. |
| ~ registration fire | fire delivered to obtain accurate data for subsequent effective engagement of targets. |
| ~ scheduled fire | prearranged fire delivered at a predetermined time. |
| ~ searching fire | fire distributed in depth by successive changes in the elevation of the gun. |
| ~ supporting fire | fire delivered by supporting units to protect or assist a unit in combat. |
| ~ suppressive fire | fire on or about a weapon system to degrade its performance below what is needed to fulfill its mission objectives. |
| ~ unobserved fire | fire for which the point of impact (the bursts) cannot be observed. |
| ~ artillery fire, cannon fire | fire delivered by artillery. |
| n. (process) | 3. fire, flame, flaming | the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke.; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries" |
| ~ blaze, blazing | a strong flame that burns brightly.; "the blaze spread rapidly" |
| ~ combustion, burning | a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light. |
| ~ flare | a sudden burst of flame. |
| ~ ignition | the process of initiating combustion or catching fire. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. fire | a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning.; "they sat by the fire and talked" |
| ~ cookfire | a fire for cooking. |
| ~ fireplace, hearth, open fireplace | an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built.; "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires" |
| n. (substance) | 5. fire | once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles). |
| ~ archaicism, archaism | the use of an archaic expression. |
| ~ element | one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe.; "the alchemists believed that there were four elements" |
| n. (feeling) | 6. ardor, ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire | feelings of great warmth and intensity.; "he spoke with great ardor" |
| ~ passion, passionateness | a strong feeling or emotion. |
| ~ zeal | excessive fervor to do something or accomplish some end.; "he had an absolute zeal for litigation" |
| n. (substance) | 7. fire | fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking.; "put the kettle on the fire"; "barbecue over an open fire" |
| ~ fuel | a substance that can be consumed to produce energy.; "more fuel is needed during the winter months"; "they developed alternative fuels for aircraft" |
| n. (event) | 8. fire | a severe trial.; "he went through fire and damnation" |
| ~ tribulation, visitation, trial | an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event.; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague" |
| n. (communication) | 9. attack, blast, fire, flack, flak | intense adverse criticism.; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak" |
| ~ criticism, unfavorable judgment | disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings.; "the senator received severe criticism from his opponent" |
| v. (competition) | 10. fire, open fire | start firing a weapon. |
| ~ shoot, blast | fire a shot.; "the gunman blasted away" |
| v. (competition) | 11. discharge, fire | cause to go off.; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet" |
| ~ pop | fire a weapon with a loud explosive noise.; "The soldiers were popping" |
| ~ go off, discharge, fire | go off or discharge.; "The gun fired" |
| ~ let drive, let fly, loose off | fire as from a gun.; "The soldiers let drive their bullets" |
| ~ shoot, blast | fire a shot.; "the gunman blasted away" |
| ~ fusillade | attack with fusillade. |
| v. (change) | 12. fire | bake in a kiln so as to harden.; "fire pottery" |
| ~ cookery, cooking, preparation | the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
| ~ bake | cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.; "bake the potatoes" |
| v. (social) | 13. can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate | terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" |
| ~ retire | make (someone) retire.; "The director was retired after the scandal" |
| ~ pension off | let go from employment with an attractive pension.; "The director was pensioned off when he got senile" |
| ~ clean out | force out.; "The new boss cleaned out the lazy workers" |
| ~ furlough, lay off | dismiss, usually for economic reasons.; "She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized" |
| ~ squeeze out | force out.; "Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts" |
| ~ remove | remove from a position or an office. |
| ~ send away, send packing, dismiss, drop | stop associating with.; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock" |
| v. (competition) | 14. discharge, fire, go off | go off or discharge.; "The gun fired" |
| v. (motion) | 15. fire | drive out or away by or as if by fire.; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism" |
| ~ chase away, dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back | force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings.; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers" |
| v. (emotion) | 16. arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise | call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses).; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" |
| ~ create, make | make or cause to be or to become.; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" |
| ~ touch a chord, strike a chord | evoke a reaction, response, or emotion.; "this writer strikes a chord with young women"; "The storyteller touched a chord" |
| ~ ask for, invite | increase the likelihood of.; "ask for trouble"; "invite criticism" |
| ~ draw | elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc..; "The President's comments drew sharp criticism from the Republicans"; "The comedian drew a lot of laughter" |
| ~ rekindle | arouse again.; "rekindle hopes"; "rekindle her love" |
| ~ infatuate | arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way.; "His new car has infatuated him"; "love has infatuated her" |
| ~ prick | to cause a sharp emotional pain.; "The thought of her unhappiness pricked his conscience" |
| ~ fire up, stir up, heat, ignite, wake, inflame | arouse or excite feelings and passions.; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred" |
| ~ stimulate, shake up, stir, excite, shake | stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" |
| ~ excite | arouse or elicit a feeling. |
| ~ anger | make angry.; "The news angered him" |
| ~ discomfit, discompose, untune, disconcert, upset | cause to lose one's composure. |
| ~ shame | cause to be ashamed. |
| ~ spite, bruise, injure, wound, offend, hurt | hurt the feelings of.; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego" |
| ~ overwhelm, sweep over, whelm, overpower, overcome, overtake | overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli. |
| ~ interest | excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of. |
| v. (change) | 17. burn, burn down, fire | destroy by fire.; "They burned the house and his diaries" |
| ~ burn, combust | undergo combustion.; "Maple wood burns well" |
| ~ incinerate, burn | cause to undergo combustion.; "burn garbage"; "The car burns only Diesel oil" |
| ~ backfire | set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire. |
| ~ cremate | reduce to ashes.; "Cremate a corpse" |
| ~ torch | burn maliciously, as by arson.; "The madman torched the barns" |
| ~ scorch | destroy completely by or as if by fire.; "The wildfire scorched the forest and several homes"; "the invaders scorched the land" |
| ~ ruin, destroy | destroy completely; damage irreparably.; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up" |
| v. (possession) | 18. fire, fuel | provide with fuel.; "Oil fires the furnace" |
| ~ furnish, provide, supply, render | give something useful or necessary to.; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" |
| burn | | |
| n. (state) | 1. burn, burning | pain that feels hot as if it were on fire. |
| ~ hurting, pain | a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder.; "the patient developed severe pain and distension" |
| n. (state) | 2. burn, sunburn, suntan, tan | a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun. |
| ~ hyperpigmentation | unusual darkening of the skin. |
| n. (state) | 3. burn | an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation. |
| ~ harm, hurt, injury, trauma | any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.. |
| ~ electric burn | a burn caused by heat produced by an electric current. |
| ~ scorch, singe | a surface burn. |
| ~ scald | a burn cause by hot liquid or steam. |
| ~ first-degree burn | burn causing redness of the skin surface. |
| ~ second-degree burn | burn causing blisters on the skin and superficial destruction of the dermis. |
| ~ third-degree burn | burn characterized by destruction of both epidermis and dermis. |
| n. (attribute) | 4. burn, burn mark | a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body). |
| ~ blemish, mar, defect | a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body).; "a facial blemish" |
| ~ cigarette burn | a burn mark left by a smoldering cigarette.; "a cigarette burn on the edge of the table" |
| n. (act) | 5. burn | damage inflicted by fire. |
| ~ scathe, damage, harm, hurt | the act of damaging something or someone. |
| ~ scald | the act of burning with steam or hot water. |
| v. (weather) | 6. burn, glow | shine intensely, as if with heat.; "The coals were glowing in the dark"; "The candles were burning" |
| ~ beam, shine | emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light.; "The sun shone bright that day"; "The fire beamed on their faces" |
| ~ gutter | burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker.; "The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground" |
| v. (change) | 7. burn, combust | undergo combustion.; "Maple wood burns well" |
| ~ change state, turn | undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
| ~ burn down, burn up, go up | burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire.; "The hut burned down"; "The mountain of paper went up in flames" |
| ~ smolder, smoulder | burn slowly and without a flame.; "a smoldering fire" |
| ~ burn, burn down, fire | destroy by fire.; "They burned the house and his diaries" |
| ~ scorch, sear, singe | become superficially burned.; "my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames" |
| ~ deflagrate | burn with great heat and intense light.; "the powder deflagrated" |
| ~ flame | be in flames or aflame.; "The sky seemed to flame in the Hawaiian sunset" |
| ~ blaze up, burn up, flame up, flare | burn brightly.; "Every star seemed to flare with new intensity" |
| ~ blaze | burn brightly and intensely.; "The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze" |
| v. (perception) | 8. bite, burn, sting | cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort.; "The sun burned his face" |
| ~ nettle, urticate | sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation. |
| ~ burn | feel hot or painful.; "My eyes are burning" |
| ~ hurt, smart, ache | be the source of pain. |
| v. (weather) | 9. burn, combust | cause to burn or combust.; "The sun burned off the fog"; "We combust coal and other fossil fuels" |
| ~ burn, combust | undergo combustion.; "Maple wood burns well" |
| ~ ignite, light | cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat.; "Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter"; "Light a cigarette" |
| ~ set ablaze, set afire, set aflame, set on fire | set fire to; cause to start burning.; "Lightening set fire to the forest" |
| ~ catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrate, ignite, erupt | start to burn or burst into flames.; "Marsh gases ignited suddenly"; "The oily rags combusted spontaneously" |
| ~ char, coal | burn to charcoal.; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything" |
| ~ deflagrate | cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity.; "care must be exercised when this substance is to be deflagrated" |
| v. (emotion) | 10. burn | feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion.; "She was burning with anger"; "He was burning to try out his new skies" |
| ~ feel, experience | undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind.; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret" |
| v. (change) | 11. burn, incinerate | cause to undergo combustion.; "burn garbage"; "The car burns only Diesel oil" |
| ~ change integrity | change in physical make-up. |
| ~ incinerate | become reduced to ashes.; "The paper incinerated quickly" |
| ~ burn, burn down, fire | destroy by fire.; "They burned the house and his diaries" |
| v. (social) | 12. burn | burn at the stake.; "Witches were burned in Salem" |
| ~ burn, burn down, fire | destroy by fire.; "They burned the house and his diaries" |
| ~ execute, put to death | kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment.; "In some states, criminals are executed" |
| v. (possession) | 13. burn | spend (significant amounts of money).; "He has money to burn" |
| ~ squander, waste, blow | spend thoughtlessly; throw away.; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree" |
| v. (perception) | 14. burn | feel hot or painful.; "My eyes are burning" |
| ~ sting, bite, burn | cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort.; "The sun burned his face" |
| ~ hurt, smart, ache | be the source of pain. |
| v. (change) | 15. burn, cauterise, cauterize | burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent.; "The surgeon cauterized the wart" |
| ~ care for, treat | provide treatment for.; "The doctor treated my broken leg"; "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient must be treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection with antibiotics" |
| ~ scorch, sear | make very hot and dry.; "The heat scorched the countryside" |
| v. (body) | 16. burn, sunburn | get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun. |
| ~ discolour, discolor, color, colour | change color, often in an undesired manner.; "The shirts discolored" |
| v. (creation) | 17. burn, cut | create by duplicating data.; "cut a disk"; "burn a CD" |
| ~ produce, create, make | create or manufacture a man-made product.; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries" |
| ~ cut | record a performance on (a medium).; "cut a record" |
| v. (consumption) | 18. burn, burn off, burn up | use up (energy).; "burn off calories through vigorous exercise" |
| ~ deplete, use up, wipe out, eat up, exhaust, run through, consume, eat | use up (resources or materials).; "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" |
| v. (change) | 19. burn | burn with heat, fire, or radiation.; "The iron burnt a hole in my dress" |
| ~ scald | burn with a hot liquid or steam.; "She scalded her hands when she turned on the faucet and hot water came out" |
| ~ damage | inflict damage upon.; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree" |
| ~ blacken, char, sear, scorch | burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color.; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling" |
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