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Definition of fire : 1. Anything which destroys or affects like fire.
2. Ardor of passion, whether love or hate; excessive warmth; consuming violence of temper.
3. Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace.
4. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm; capacity for ardor and zeal.
5. Splendor; brilliancy; luster; hence, a star.
6. The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.
7. The discharge of firearms; firing; as, the troops were exposed to a heavy fire.
8. The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
9. To animate; to give life or spirit to; as, to fire the genius of a young man.
10. To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
11. To cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon; to fire cannon balls, rockets, etc.
12. To cauterize.
13. To discharge artillery or firearms; as, they fired on the town.
14. To drive by fire.
15. To feed or serve the fire of; as, to fire a boiler.
16. To inflame; to irritate, as the passions; as, to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge.
17. To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
18. To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.
19. To subject to intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln; as, to fire pottery.
20. To take fire; to be kindled; to kindle.
21. Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.

Synonyms:

bam, exculpate, set up, fervidness, go off, empty, combustion, conflagrate, put up, eject, firing, muster out, fuel, beset, feelings, recruit, expel, liberation, blast, flack, pyre, fervour, approach, dash, call forth, farm, free, elan, radiance, burn down, attack, wake, dismissal, blow, conflagration, put forward, call down, burn up, report, concern, get up, burst, displace, nurture, flack catcher, chivvy, conjure, go over, gust, implode, attempt, tone-beginning, abscond, flak, exhaust, push aside, enhance, run off, incandescence, acquit, draw out, apprise, chevy, crowd out, turn on, heighten, parent, good time, exonerate, go up, dissolve, levy, evoke, harry, unload, throw out, cut, wake up, fusillade, burning, apprize, ack-ack, kindle, leaven, prove, ardour, tin, advance, evict, send packing, antiaircraft gun, rear, genius, hassle, burn off, excitation, send word, suggest, give the axe, put down, spray, gouge, bombardment, conjure up, produce, onslaught, energise, send away, make off, notify, kick up, cauterise, give the gate, flare-up, wind up, molest, antiaircraft, hot, zealousness, stir, bring up, decamp, holocaust, elicit, shot, sack, clear, plan of attack, brilliance, hearth, force out, drop, bolt, inspiration, give notice, sex, salvo, perk up, preempt, eruption, discharge, pom-pom, erect, explosion, absquatulate, harass, give the bounce, invoke, enkindle, paint a picture, clap, flak catcher, end, cannonade, awaken, upraise, brush aside, sacking, terminate, drive out, lighting, cauterize, sack up, discount, onset, incinerate, awake, brace, advise, bite, plunder, flaming, chivy, barrage, squirt, release, ignite, come off, usher out, shooting, extract, educe, open fire, waken, lift, dispatch, bonfire, squeeze out, assoil, volley, ignore, onrush, set down, brush off, net, promote, gunfire, come alive, curtain, give the sack, ignition, sting, dismiss, kick upstairs, complete, cease, ack-ack gun, rout out, good, kindling, bang, can, bombing, luminosity, scintillation, raise, drop off, grow, sunburn, stop, firing off, upgrade, plague, chevvy, dismission, burst into flame, resurrect, disregard, brilliancy, depose, elevate, combust, detonation, finish

disquiet, animate, inflame, electrify, impassion, excite, arouse, exhilarate, disturb, agitate, stimulate

induction, magnetism, catalyst, enticement, goading, compulsion, impulsion, fomentation, facilitation, prompting, fermentation, propulsion, provocation, motive

attentiveness, anxiety, fervency, exhilaration, ardency, animation, furor, excitement, inflammation, passion, stimulation, turbulence, arousal, electrification, disquietude, agitation, feverishness

warmth, fry, cook, heat, burn, sear, braise, parboil, grill, roast, singe, boil, toast, scorch, calefaction, poach, bake, warm, scald, barbecue, torridness, fever, simmer, stew, parch, swelter, broil, temperature, char

potency, stamina, verve, energy, spirit, zip, vim, fervor, effervescence, strength, zing, might, puissance, activity, pep, vivacity, vigor, zeal, spunk, snap

goad, butt, cant, bowl, cast, launch, flick, project, compel, fling, prod, hurl, pitch, lob, propel, catapult, thrust, precipitate, throw, push, impel, sling, pelt, shunt, chuck, shove, heave, bunt, toss, ram

eagerness, ardor, enthusiasm

ferment, foment, nudge, inspire, induce, jerk, encourage, jolt, jostle, provoke, urge, knock, hurtle, prompt, magnetize, instigate, strike, hasten, motivate, poke, punch, shoot, trigger, move, bump, jog, entice

blaze, scintillate, gleam, shine, spot, beam, flash, illuminate, radiate, sparkle, glow, glint, incandesce, flood, fluoresce, glitter

moon, oil lamp, arc lamp, pilot light, light bulb, taper, incandescent light, headlight, desk light, klieg light, moonbeam, jack-o'-lantern, lantern, light, sun, star, lamp, floodlight, tungsten lamp, torch, illuminator, beacon, table lamp, candle, flare, flame, street lamp, mercury-vapor lamp, spotlight, fluorescent light, floor lamp, neon light, flashlight, searchlight

energize, rouse, activate, force, invigorate, drive, spark, empower, revive, power, recharge, charge

Usage examples:

• " Yes, you have got the story, and be off with you now," said the woman who sat by the fire. - "The King of Ireland's Son", Padraic Colum.
• There is no fire in you, Daisy." - "Daisy in the Field", Elizabeth Wetherell.
• Make up the fire, please. - "The Testing of Diana Mallory", Mrs. Humphry Ward.