'To fire up' definitions:
Definition of 'To fire up'
From: GCIDE
- Fire \Fire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fired; p. pr. & vb. n. Fring.]
- 1. To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To subject to intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln; as, to fire pottery. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To inflame; to irritate, as the passions; as, to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge. [1913 Webster]
- Love had fired my mind. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To animate; to give life or spirit to; as, to fire the genius of a young man. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To feed or serve the fire of; as, to fire a boiler. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To light up as if by fire; to illuminate. [1913 Webster]
- [The sun] fires the proud tops of the eastern pines. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a rifle, pistol, or cannon; to fire cannon balls, rockets, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To drive by fire. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Till my bad angel fire my good one out. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Far.) To cauterize. [1913 Webster]
- 10. to dismiss from employment, a post, or other job; to cause (a person) to cease being an employee; -- of a person. The act of firing is usually performed by that person's supervisor or employer. "You can't fire me! I quit!" [PJC]
- To fire up,
- 1. to light up the fires of, as of an engine; also, figuratively, to start up any machine.
- 2. to render enthusiastic; -- of people. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Definition of 'To fire up'
From: GCIDE
- Fire \Fire\, v. i.
- 1. To take fire; to be kindled; to kindle. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be irritated or inflamed with passion. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To discharge artillery or firearms; as, they fired on the town. [1913 Webster]
- To fire up, to grow irritated or angry. "He . . . fired up, and stood vigorously on his defense." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'To fire up'
- Fire,
- Fired,
- Firing,
- On fire,
- Under fire,
- fire up,
- firing off,
- Angel Fire,
- Beacon fire,
- Blue fire,
- Council fire,
- Cross fire,
- Death fire,
- Direct fire,
- Dropping fire,
- Elf fire,
- Elmo's fire,
- False fire,
- File firing,
- Fire Island,
- Fire alarm,
- Fire annihilator,
- Fire balloon,
- Fire bar,
- Fire basket,
- Fire beetle,
- Fire blast,
- Fire box,
- Fire brick,
- Fire brigade,
- Fire bucket,
- Fire bug,
- Fire clay,
- Fire company,
- Fire cross,
- Fire damp,
- Fire dog,
- Fire drill,
- Fire eater,
- Fire engine,
- Fire escape,
- Fire gilding,
- Fire gilt,
- Fire insurance,
- Fire irons,
- Fire main,
- Fire master,
- Fire office,
- Fire opal,
- Fire ordeal,
- Fire pan,
- Fire plug,
- Fire policy,
- Fire pot,
- Fire raft,
- Fire roll,
- Fire setting,
- Fire ship,
- Fire shovel,
- Fire stink,
- Fire surface,
- Fire swab,
- Fire teaser,
- Fire tube,
- Fire water,
- Fire worship,
- Firing iron,
- Firing pin,
- Grecian fire,
- Greek fire,
- Green fire,
- Gun fire,
- Heavy fire,
- Horizontal fire,
- Indian fire,
- Knobbling fire,
- Line of fire,
- Night fire,
- Persian fire,
- Plunging fire,
- Red fire,
- Reverse fire,
- Ricochet firing,
- Rolling fire,
- Running fire,
- To bank a fire,
- To bank up a fire,
- To catch fire,
- To hang fire,
- To light a fire,
- To set fire to,
- To set on fire,
- To stand fire,
- To take fire,
- To walk through the fire,
- Vertical fire,
- Watch fire,
- all-fired,
- antiaircraft fire,
- artillery fire,
- back fire,
- ball of fire,
- barrage fire,
- brush fire,
- call fire,
- cannon fire,
- catch fire,
- cease fire,
- concentrated fire,
- counterbattery fire,
- countermortar fire,
- counterpreparation fire,
- covering fire,
- crown fire,
- destruction fire,
- distributed fire,
- electric fire,
- enfilade fire,
- field of fire,
- fire and brimstone,
- fire ant,
- fire bell,
- fire blight,
- fire bush,
- fire chief,
- fire code,
- fire control,
- fire department,
- fire door,
- fire extinguisher,
- fire fighter,
- fire grenade,
- fire hook,
- fire hose,
- fire hydrant,
- fire iron,
- fire marble,
- fire marshal,
- fire marshall,
- fire pink,
- fire pit,
- fire retardant,
- fire salamander,
- fire sale,
- fire screen,
- fire station,
- fire tactics,
- fire thorn,
- fire tongs,
- fire tower,
- fire tree,
- fire trench,
- fire truck,
- fire tubes,
- fire walker,
- fire walking,
- fire warden,
- fire watcher,
- fire watching,
- fire wheel,
- firing chamber,
- firing line,
- firing mechanism,
- firing party,
- firing range,
- firing squad,
- flame of fire,
- forest fire,
- fox fire,
- friendly fire,
- grazing fire,
- ground fire,
- hang fire,
- harassing fire,
- hostile fire,
- indirect fire,
- interdiction fire,
- massed fire,
- mortar fire,
- neutralization fire,
- observed fire,
- open fire,
- play with fire,
- prairie fire,
- preparation fire,
- radar fire,
- reconnaissance by fire,
- registration fire,
- rocket firing,
- scheduled fire,
- searching fire,
- set on fire,
- signal fire,
- supporting fire,
- suppressive fire,
- surface fire,
- take fire,
- unobserved fire,
- zone fire,
- Angel Fire, NM,
- Back-fire,
- Back-firing,
- Fire Island, NY,
- Fire-fanged,
- Fire-new,
- Fire-set,
- Pin-fire,
- Rapid-fire,
- Rapid-firing,
- Rim-fire,
- Saint Anthony's fire,
- Saint Elmo's fire,
- St Anthony's fire,
- St Elmo's fire,
- Steam fire engine,
- Too many irons in the fire,
- cease-fire,
- close supporting fire,
- coal-fired,
- deep supporting fire,
- direct supporting fire,
- european fire salamander,
- fire control radar,
- fire control system,
- fire-bush,
- fire-eater,
- fire-on-the-mountain,
- fire-raising,
- fire-resistant,
- fire-resisting,
- fire-resistive,
- fire-retardant,
- fire-swallower,
- fire-tree,
- fire-wheel,
- fire-worship,
- forest fire fighter,
- mexican fire plant,
- oil-fired,
- quick-fire,
- saint ulmo's fire,
- st. elmo's fire,
- sure-fire,
- wood-fired,
- Center-fire cartridge,
- Rapid-fire mount,
- Rim-fire cartridge,
- Stink-fire lance,
- fire-bellied toad,
- fire-crested wren,
- fire-sale price,
- high-angle fire