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This bark gets scorched in a bush-fire, but unless the fire is a very fierce one indeed, the tree is not vitally hurt.

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  1. noun A rapid, persistent chemical change that releases heat and light and is accompanied by flame, especially the exothermic oxidation of a combustible substance.
  2. noun Burning fuel or other material: a cooking fire; a forest fire.
  3. noun Burning intensity of feeling; ardor. See Synonyms at passion.
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  • She realized eventually that what she had mistaken for a fire was the flicker of a motion-picture projector and that her father was really the actor, Randolph Mondrian. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 04-05 - October-November 2002
  • At night we made the attempt, and succeeded in firing the buildings several times, but without effect, as the fire was always instantly extinguished. —  Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk
  • He did not seem to fear the fire, or anything else, for that matter The only persons within the enclosure who did seem to fear the fire were the four professional killers with the submachine guns. —  103 - The Mindless Monsters
  • Collect the heart-fire, and the fire will be our fire. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
  • As of now, the cause for the fire is a short circuit on the switches. —  Chennai Metblogs
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fire:   fires ·  firing ·  fired
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English fir, from Old English fȳr; see paəwr̥ in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also fyre; from Middle English fire, fir, fyre, fyr, fier, fyer, fur, etc., from Anglo-Saxon fy¯r = Old Saxon fiur = OFries. fior, fiur = Dutch vier, vuur = Middle Low German vūr, viur, vuir, vuer, Low German vür, vüer = Old High German fuir, later fiur, Middle High German vuir, viur, German feuer = Icelandic fy¯ri (and. poetical fürr) = Swedish Danish fyr = Umbrian pir = Greek πῦρ, fire (later English pyre, q. v.), dial. πύϊρ, (cf. πυρσός, a torch). Different words are used in Gothic (Moesogothic) (fōn, genitive fūnins, fire; cf. Icelandic funi, a flame), in L. and Sanskrit (Latin ignis = Sanskrit agni, fire), and in Roman (Italian fuoco = Spanish fuego = Portuguese fogo = French feu, fire, from Latin focus, fireplace: see fuel, focus).
  2. from Middle English firen, fyren, furen, set on fire, expose to fire, animate, from Anglo-Saxon fy¯rian, found only in the sense of ‘give warmth to,’ = Dutch vuren = Middle Low German vuren, Low German füren = Swedish fyra = Danish fyre, fire; from the noun.
 

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