SkyfireDict

fired   (TTS Sound)

The verb fire has 9 senses

• open fire, fire -- (start firing a weapon)


• fire, discharge -- (cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet")


• fire -- (bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery")


• displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate -- (terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers")


• fire, discharge, go off -- (go off or discharge; "The gun fired")


• fire -- (drive out or away by or as if by fire; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism")


• arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke -- (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy")


• burn, fire, burn down -- (destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries")


• fuel, fire -- (provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace")

The adj fired has 1 sense

• discharged, dismissed, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped -- (having lost your job)