Definition of fires

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• fires is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 8
• fires is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 8
• fires is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 8

Definition of fires

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. arouse
  2. elicit
  3. enkindle
  4. evoke
  5. kindle
  6. provoke
  7. raise
• provide with fuel (verb)

  Examples

  1. Oil fires the furnace

  Synonyms

  1. fuel
• start firing a weapon (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. open fire
• go off or discharge (verb)

  Examples

  1. The gun fired

  Synonyms

  1. discharge
  2. go off
• the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke (noun)

  Examples

  1. fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries

  Synonyms

  1. flame
  2. flaming
• start or maintain a fire in (verb)

  Examples

  1. fire the furnace

  Synonyms

  1. ignite
  2. light
• feelings of great warmth and intensity (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. ardor
  2. ardour
  3. fervency
  4. fervidness
  5. fervor
  6. fervour
• become ignited (verb)

  Examples

  1. The furnace wouldn't fire

  Synonyms

  1. flame up
• the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy (noun)

  Examples

  1. hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes
  2. they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire

  Synonyms

  1. firing
• intense adverse criticism (noun)

  Examples

  1. Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party

  Synonyms

  1. attack
  2. blast
  3. flack
  4. flak
• terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position (verb)

  Examples

  1. The boss fired his secretary today

  Synonyms

  1. can
  2. dismiss
  3. displace
  4. force out
  5. give notice
  6. give the axe
  7. give the sack
  8. sack
  9. send away
  10. terminate
• cause to go off (verb)

  Examples

  1. fire a gun
  2. fire a bullet

  Synonyms

  1. discharge
• destroy by fire (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. burn
  2. burn down
• a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning (noun)

  Examples

  1. they sat by the fire and talked
• a severe trial (noun)

  Examples

  1. he went through fire and damnation
• bake in a kiln so as to harden (verb)

  Examples

  1. fire pottery
• drive out or away by or as if by fire (verb)

  Examples

  1. The soldiers were fired
  2. Surrender fires the cold skepticism
• fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking (noun)

  Examples

  1. put the kettle on the fire
  2. barbecue over an open fire
• generate an electrical impulse (verb)

  Examples

  1. the neurons fired fast
• once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles) (noun)
• the event of something burning (often destructive) (noun)

  Examples

  1. they lost everything in the fire

See definition of fires in Merriam Webster