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"
destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries"
a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning; "they sat by the fire and talked"
cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"
intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"
go off or discharge; "The gun fired"
the event of something burning (often destructive); "they lost everything in the fire"
start firing a weapon
a severe trial; "he went through fire and damnation"
call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
feelings of great warmth and intensity; "
SMOKE
inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; "We never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?"
(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke"
emit a cloud of fine particles; "The chimney was fuming"
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"