| 释义 |
Adjective: fired fI(u)rd [N. Amer], fIu(r)d [Brit]- Having lost your job
- discharged, dismissed, laid-off, pink-slipped
Verb: fire fI(u)r [N. Amer], fIu(r) [Brit]- Start firing a weapon
- open fire - Cause to go off
"fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"
- discharge - Bake in a kiln so as to harden
"fire pottery" - Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
"The boss fired his secretary today"
- displace, give notice, can [N. Amer], dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate - Go off or discharge
"The gun fired"
- discharge, go off - Drive out or away by or as if by fire
"The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold scepticism" - Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, raise, provoke - Destroy by fire
- burn, burn down - Provide with fuel
"Oil fires the furnace"
- fuel
See also: firing, unemployed Type of: bake, blast, chase away, create, destroy, dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, furnish, make, provide, remove, render, ruin, run off, shoot, spifflicate, spiflicate, supply, turn back Antonym: hire Encyclopedia: Fire, Bed, & Bone Fire Fire, Bed, and Bone Fire, Ice and Dynamite Fire, the play Fire, Bed & Bone Fire, Bed and Bone Fired |