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Friendly fire   /frˈɛndli fˈaɪər/   Listen
Friendly fire

noun
1.
Fire that injures or kills an ally.  Synonym: fratricide.






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"Friendly fire" Quotes from Famous Books



... not wholly genuine, and time would swing Andy back to his old ways; but just then, sitting by that friendly fire, he seemed to feel very warmly disposed toward the lad whose coming may ...
— The Outdoor Chums - The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera Club • Captain Quincy Allen

... of ancestral sleep and dream: they seemed so familiar and well known. Behind him blinked the little friendly fire in the forest, link with the outer world he must not lose. He would find the children there when he went back, lively from their scamper among the stars; and, meanwhile, he was quite content to wander down these corridors in the floor of Night and taste their ...
— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood



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