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firingnoun a directed propelling of a missile by a firearm or artillery piecefound a flaw in the gun's firing blasting, discharge, shot potshotbarrage, blitz, blitzkrieg, bombardment, broadside, burst, cannonade, drumfire, fusillade, hail, salvo, shower, storm, volley to cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with forcepolice officers firing rubber bullets blasting, discharging, loosing, shooting, squeezing off launching, projectingblazing (at), sniping (at)casting, catapulting, flinging, heaving, hurling, hurtling, lobbing, pelting, pitching, slinging, throwing, tossing to cause a weapon to release a missile with great forcesoldiers fired at the enemy in panic-stricken disorder to give life, vigor, or spirit toa school outing to the natural history museum fired his imagination, and he grew up to become an eminent paleontologist amping (up), animating, bracing, energizing, enlivening, filliping, gingering (up), invigorating, jazzing (up), juicing up, jump-starting, livening (up), pepping (up), quickening, spiking, stimulating, vitalizing, vivifying, zipping (up) arousing, awakening, awaking, raising, rousing, stirring, waking (up)activating, actuating, driving, impelling, motivating, motiving, moving, propellingcharging, electrifying, galvanizingenkindling, exciting, fermenting, fomenting, inciting, inflaming(also enflaming), instigating, kindling, provoking, setting off, sparking, triggering, turning on, whipping (up)abetting, boosting, buoying, cheering, emboldening, fortifying, heartening, infusing, inspiring, lifting, rallying, steeling, strengtheningreactivating, reanimating, reawakening, reawaking, recharging, recreating, reenergizing(or re-energizing), refreshening, refreshing, regenerating, reinvigorating, rejuvenating, rekindling, renewing, restimulating, resurrecting, resuscitating, revitalizing, reviving dampening, damping, deadening, dulling, killing burning out, debilitating, doing in, draining, enervating, enfeebling, exhausting, fagging, fatiguing, harassing, kayoing, knocking out, sapping, tuckering (out), undermining, washing out, weakening, wearing, wearing out, wearyingchecking, curbing, inhibiting, jading, quelling, quenching, repressing, restraining, slowing, stilling, stunting, suppressingdaunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting to let go from office, service, or employmentfired the secretary for incompetence axing, bouncing, canning, cashiering, discharging, dismissing, mustering out, pink-slipping, releasing, removing, retiring, sacking, terminating, turning off downsizing, excessing, furloughing, laying off, trimmingbooting (out), chucking (out), drumming (out), kicking out, throwing out, unseatingseparating sending packing, showing (someone) the door employing, engaging, hiring, retaining, signing (up or on), taking on keepingreemploying(or re-employing), rehiringcontracting, subcontractingrecruiting to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the armfired a pass to the running back casting, catapulting, chucking, dashing, flinging, heaving, hurling, hurtling, launching, lobbing, lofting, pegging, pelting, pitching, slinging, throwing, tossing bowling, darting, flipping, gunning, hooking, passing, rolling, shootingbucking, ejecting, impelling, precipitating, projecting, propelling, rifling, thrusting letting fly to set (something) on firelit some kindling before attempting to fire the logs burning, enkindling, igniting, inflaming(also enflaming), kindling, lighting, torching immolatingdeflagratingcharring, frizzling, scorchingbaking, broiling, cookingashing, cremating, incinerating, kilningsetting offbrightening, illuminating, illumining, irradiating, lightening, radiatingscalding, scathing, searingreigniting, rekindling, relightingbanking, stoking dousing(also dowsing), extinguishing, putting out, quenching, snuffing (out) choking, smothering, suffocatingstamping (out)blackening, darkening, dimming, dulling, obscuring in the 14th century |