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Fired

adjective

Having lost your job. Synonyms: discharged, dismissed, laid-off, pink-slipped.

Fire

verb

(past & past part. fired; pres. part. fring)

Start firing a weapon. Synonym: open fire.

Cause to go off. Synonym: discharge. "Fire a bullet"

Bake in a kiln so as to harden.

Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position. Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate. "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

Go off or discharge. Synonyms: discharge, go off.

Drive out or away by or as if by fire. "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"

Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses). Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, kindle, provoke, raise. "Raise a smile" , "Evoke sympathy"

Destroy by fire. Synonyms: burn, burn down.

Provide with fuel. Synonym: fuel.

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"Fired" Quotes from Famous Books

... him with a savage cry. His hand was on his throat—God knows what crime he would have done, fired by the insult offered to the memory of his mother, had not Margie caught his ...

— The Fatal Glove • Clara Augusta Jones Trask

... and chilly. We wore our greatcoats most of the afternoon, and looked for bits of sunlight to get warm. About two o'clock the heavy guns gave us a regular "black-smithing". Every time we fired we drew a perfect hornet's nest about our heads. While attending to a casualty, a shell broke through both sides of the trench, front and back, about twelve feet away. The zigzag of the trench was between it and us, and ...

— In Flanders Fields and Other Poems - With an Essay in Character, by Sir Andrew Macphail • John McCrae

... place—the company closing ranks in such perfect order that both the friendly Indians (who came with us, to the number of five or six hundred) and the Moros were greatly frightened. The master-of-camp ordered that the cannon amidship on the large vessel be fired, although not to increase their fright. The review had not yet ended when a Moro came with sixty gold taels, which he gave to the master-of-camp—asking him not to be offended if the gift were not brought quickly, because the people had dispersed through ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 - Volume III, 1569-1576 • E.H. Blair

... was not the work of one day or of one visit. I have been laying my train to the citadel; to-day I fired it, and he capitulated. Tell me, sir, did you ever hear of ...

— My New Curate • P.A. Sheehan

... priests became fired by the victory which they supposed they had gained. They dreamt that they were in full possession of their ancient power; and they wished immediately to revive it according to their ancient fashion. An actress belonging to the Theatre Francais died without ...

— Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I • Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon

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