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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

... Alton grimly. "My father used to be, but he was too much of my way of thinking and they fired him out of the country. It's a thing I don't like to talk of, Charley, and just now I'm a low-down packer hauling in a pile of truck I'll never get paid for. Steady, come up. There's nothing going ...

— Alton of Somasco • Harold Bindloss

... low, slanting along my thighs. I guided the barrels with my mind, and, feeling the direction to be true, I fired. ...

— The Hunters' Feast - Conversations Around the Camp Fire • Mayne Reid

... past history, its superiority in everything to all other regiments in the division, and his confidence in his men to maintain such a standard of excellence. In many expeditions it has happened that shots have been fired at nothing, night after night, thus disturbing the whole force; such bad habits must be ...

— Khartoum Campaign, 1898 - or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan • Bennet Burleigh

... heavy wrath of God Upon their uncle fell; Yea, fearful fiends did haunt his house, His conscience felt an hell: His barns were fired, his goods consumed, His lands were barren made, His cattle died within the field, And nothing with ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various

... Lil Burr's brother. Her prize brother, the one that's been fired from three prep schools. Everard got him a scholarship at ...

— The Wishing Moon • Louise Elizabeth Dutton

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