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[ fahyuhr-proof ] / ˈfaɪərˌpruf / SEE SYNONYMS FOR fireproof ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveresistant to destruction by fire. totally or almost totally unburnable. Origin of fireproofFirst recorded in 1630–40; fire + -proof OTHER WORDS FROM fireproofnon·fire·proof, adjectivequasi-fireproof, adjectiveWords nearby fireprooffireplug, fire point, fire-polish, fire pot, firepower, fireproof, fireproofing, fire raiser, fire red, fire resistance, fire-resistant Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for fireproofIn 2008 he starred in Fireproof, a critically derided movie about a firefighter trying to save his marriage from divorce. Kirk Cameron’s Controversies, ‘Growing Pains’ to Values Voter Summit|Kevin Fallon|September 14, 2012|DAILY BEAST A Fireproof Your Marriage study kit and other products are also selling briskly. The Red Hot Christian Blockbuster|Daniel Radosh|October 21, 2008|DAILY BEAST In the perfect world of Fireproof, good Christians do not have bad marriages, any more than they drink, gamble or swear. The Red Hot Christian Blockbuster|Daniel Radosh|October 21, 2008|DAILY BEAST The success of Fireproof has little to do with its artistic merits, and everything to do with religious message. The Red Hot Christian Blockbuster|Daniel Radosh|October 21, 2008|DAILY BEAST
In that last category, you might hear a youth pastor ask his charges, “Are you fireproof?” The Red Hot Christian Blockbuster|Daniel Radosh|October 21, 2008|DAILY BEAST Stones should not be put in home-made cookers which are not insulated with asbestos or other fireproof material. Mechanical Devices in the Home|Edith Louise Allen The Will remained in its fireproof box at my office, through more years than I like to reckon up. The Moonstone|Wilkie Collins New tenement houses, four stories or more in height, are required to be fireproof throughout. Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part II: The Place|Various The dignified apartment house to which I clung, is a skeleton only—needless to say it was supposed to be fireproof! Six Girls and the Tea Room|Marion Ames Taggart Generators must stand in separate buildings, which, in towns, must be fireproof. Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899|Various
British Dictionary definitions for fireproof
adjectivecapable of resisting damage by fire verb(tr) to make resistant to fire Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to fireproofconcrete, asbestos, fire-resistant, incombustible, noncandescent, noncombustible, nonflammable, noninflammable |