Scrabble & Words with friends points
- fire is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 7
- fire is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 7
- fire is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 7
Definition of fire
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) (verb)
Synonyms
- arouse
- elicit
- enkindle
- evoke
- kindle
- provoke
- raise
- provide with fuel (verb)
Examples
- Oil fires the furnace
Synonyms
- fuel
- start firing a weapon (verb)
Synonyms
- open fire
- go off or discharge (verb)
Examples
- The gun fired
Synonyms
- discharge
- go off
- the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke (noun)
Examples
- fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries
Synonyms
- flame
- flaming
- start or maintain a fire in (verb)
Examples
- fire the furnace
Synonyms
- ignite
- light
- feelings of great warmth and intensity (noun)
Synonyms
- ardor
- ardour
- fervency
- fervidness
- fervor
- fervour
- become ignited (verb)
Examples
- The furnace wouldn't fire
Synonyms
- flame up
- the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy (noun)
Examples
- hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes
- they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire
Synonyms
- firing
- intense adverse criticism (noun)
Examples
- Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party
Synonyms
- attack
- blast
- flack
- flak
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position (verb)
Examples
- The boss fired his secretary today
Synonyms
- can
- dismiss
- displace
- force out
- give notice
- give the axe
- give the sack
- sack
- send away
- terminate
- cause to go off (verb)
Examples
- fire a gun
- fire a bullet
Synonyms
- discharge
- destroy by fire (verb)
Synonyms
- burn
- burn down
- a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning (noun)
Examples
- they sat by the fire and talked
- a severe trial (noun)
Examples
- he went through fire and damnation
- bake in a kiln so as to harden (verb)
Examples
- fire pottery
- drive out or away by or as if by fire (verb)
Examples
- The soldiers were fired
- Surrender fires the cold skepticism
- fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking (noun)
Examples
- put the kettle on the fire
- barbecue over an open fire
- generate an electrical impulse (verb)
Examples
- 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
- they lost everything in the fire
See definition of fire in Merriam Webster