Definition of fires

"fires" in the noun sense

1. fire

the event of something burning (often destructive

"they lost everything in the fire"

2. fire, firing

the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy

"hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"

"they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"

3. fire, flame, flaming

the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke

"fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"

4. fire

a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning

"they sat by the fire and talked"

5. fire

once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)

6. ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidness

feelings of great warmth and intensity

"he spoke with great ardor"

7. fire

fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking

"put the kettle on the fire"

"barbecue over an open fire"

8. fire

a severe trial

"he went through fire and damnation"

9. fire, attack, flak, flack, blast

intense adverse criticism

"Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"

"the government has come under attack"

"don't give me any flak"

"fires" in the verb sense

1. open fire, fire

start firing a weapon

2. fire, discharge

cause to go off

"fire a gun"

"fire a bullet"

3. fire

bake in a kiln so as to harden

"fire pottery"

4. 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"

5. fire, discharge, go off

go off or discharge

"The gun fired"

6. fire

drive out or away by or as if by fire

"The soldiers were fired"

"Surrender fires the cold skepticism"

7. arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke

call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses

"arouse pity"

"raise a smile"

"evoke sympathy"

8. burn, fire, burn down

destroy by fire

"They burned the house and his diaries"

9. fuel, fire

provide with fuel

"Oil fires the furnace"

10. fire

generate an electrical impulse

"the neurons fired fast"

11. fire, flame up

become ignited

"The furnace wouldn't fire"

12. fire, light, ignite

start or maintain a fire in

"fire the furnace"

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Quotations for fires

Little chips light great fires. [ Proverb ]

The eyes of women are Promethean fires. [ William Shakespeare ]

Two kitchen fires burn not on one hearth. [ Proverb ]

I wonder if the sap is stirring yet.
If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate.
If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun,
And crocus fires are kindling one by one. [ Christina G. Rossetti ]

From small fires comes oft no small mishap. [ George Herbert ]

Eternal torments, baths of boiling sulphur.
Vicissitude of fires, and then of frosts. [ Dryden ]

Fanned fires and forced love ne'er did weel. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries,
Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. [ Gray ]

And where two raging fires meet together
They do consume the thing that feeds their fury. [ William Shakespeare ]

Hearts with equal love combined kindle never-dying fires. [ Carew ]

Turn to the press - its teeming sheets survey,
Big with the wonders of each passing day;
Births, deaths, and weddings, forgeries, fires and wrecks.
Harangues and hailstones, brawls and broken necks. [ Sprague ]

Roast meat at three fires; as soon as you've basted one, another's burnin'. [ George Eliot ]

Lips become compressed and drawn with anxious thought, and eyes the brightest are quenched of their fires by many tears. [ S. Lover ]

The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes. [ Horace ]

Love is not a fire which can be confined within the breast; everything betrays it; and its fires imperfectly covered, only burst out the more. [ Racine ]

A beautiful face fires our imagination, and we see higher virtue and intelligence in it than we can detect in its owner's head or heart when we descend to calm inspection. [ Charles Reade ]

Like an old woman at her hearth, we warm our hands at our sorrows and drop in faggots, and each thinks his own fire a sun in presence of which all other fires should go out. [ J. M. Barrie ]

The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal. [ Ouida ]

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone. [ Emerson ]

Grief, like night, is salutary. It cools down the soul by putting out its feverish fires; and if it oppresses her, it also compresses her energies. The load once gone, she will go forth with greater buoyancy to new pleasures. [ Dr. Pulsford ]

fires in Scrabble®

The word fires is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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fires in Words With Friends™

The word fires is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Word Growth involving fires

Shorter words in fires

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Longer words containing fires

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