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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fire \Fire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fired}; p. pr & vb n.
{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. --Dryden.
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.
--Shak.
7. To cause to explode; as to fire a torpedo; to disharge;
as to fire a musket or cannon; to fire cannon balls,
rockets, etc
8. To drive by fire. [Obs.]
Till my bad angel fire my good one out --Shak.
9. (Far.) To cauterize.
{To fire up}, to light up the fires of as of an engine.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
fired
adj : having lost your job [syn: {discharged}, {dismissed}, {laid-off},
{pink-slipped}]
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