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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" Antonym: hire.

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

... money-bags to the countenance of Nisida, and then back to the little sacks; but Stephano studied more the countenance than the other objects of attraction; for Nisida's face once more expressed firm resolution and her haughty, imperious, determined aspect, combined with her extraordinary beauty, fired the ...

— Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf • George W. M. Reynolds

... apparently without the tremor of a nerve, led back her children, and again appearing upon the balcony alone, folded her arms, and, raising her eyes to heaven, stood before them, a self-devoted victim. The heroism of the act changed for a moment hatred to admiration. Not a gun was fired; there was a moment of silence, and then one spontaneous burst of applause rose apparently from every lip, and shouts of "Vive la reine! vive ...

— Maria Antoinette - Makers of History • John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

... Apollo fighting for Troy Hera and Athena came down to battle for the Greeks; they found Diomedes on the skirts of the host, cooling the wound Pandarus had inflicted. Entering his chariot by his side, Athena fired him to meet Ares and drive him wounded back to Olympus, where he found but little compassion from Zeus. The two goddesses then left the mortals to ...

— Authors of Greece • T. W. Lumb

... at the top of the slip, grinned broadly, and fired at the fishermen a volley of chaff which diverted the Italian's attention from his mate ...

— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace

... Rodin. They are repousseed by the hard bones and sinews underneath. I can think of nothing but the clothing of Millet's peasants to compare with this exterior of John's. He is himself a peasant of the woods. He has not the predatory instincts. If he could have his way, not a shot would be fired by any of us for the mere idle sport of killing. Shooting these innocent, fearless creatures, who have not learned that we are here for their destruction, is too like murder and treachery combined. Hunger should be our only excuse. My forbearance, or weakness, ...

— The Desert and The Sown • Mary Hallock Foote

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