drive out or away by or as if by fire; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"
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"
provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace"
a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning; "they sat by the fire and talked"
terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position;
intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"
the event of something burning (often destructive); "they lost everything in the fire"
a severe trial; "he went through fire and damnation"
feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor"
the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often)
SMOKE
emit a cloud of fine particles; "The chimney was fuming"
(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke"
the act of smoking tobacco or other substances; "he went outside for a smoke"; "smoking stinks"
street names for marijuana
tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder
something with no concrete substance; "his dreams all turned to smoke"; "it was just smoke and mirrors"
an indication of some hidden activity; "with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere"
a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion; "the fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles"
inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; "We never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?"