Fire Up

Definition: Fire Up

Fire Up

Verb

1. Arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred".

2. Begin to smoke; "After the meal, some of the diners lit up".

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Literature

Mining

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Synonyms: Fire Up

Excitability

Lose one's temper; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck; battre la campagne, faire le diable a quatre, play the deuce.

Irascibility

Verb: be irascible; Adjective: have a temper; Noun: have a devil in one; fire up; (be angry).

Resentment

Fly into a rage, fall into a rage, get into a rage, fly into a passion; bridle up, bristle up, froth up, fire up, flare up; open the vials of one's wrath, pour out the vials of one's wrath.

Crosswords: Fire Up

Fire up (1997)

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Books

• Fire Up Your Brilliance: The Passion Energies That Position You For Success (reference)

• Fire Up Your Communication Skills: Get People to Listen, Understand, and Give You What You Want! (reference)

• Fire Up Your Life (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Ma built the fire up with the last twigs and cooked the bacon and made gravy.

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Expression using "fire up": To fire up. Additional references.

Albanian

nxehem (become heated, become hot, blow up, chafe, fly into a passion, fly into a rage, get angry, get hot, lose one's temper), ndez (activate, burn, enkindle, fire, foment, heat, ignite, inflame, kindle, light, make the fire, set fire, set light to, set on fire, switch on, turn on). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разсърдвам се. (various references)

Czech

vzplanout hnìvem (fly into a rage). (various references)

Danish

varme op (to cook up, to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), tempre op (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), optempre (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up). (various references)

Dutch

opwarmen (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), optemperen (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up). (various references)

Finnish

ylöslämmittää (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), temprata (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up). (various references)

French

attremper (to fire up). (various references)

German

tempern (temper), auftempern (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), antempern (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up). (various references)

Greek 

φουντώνω (flare on, flare up, rage, spread, tuft). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תלקח (be inflamed, blaze up, catch fire, fire, flame, flare up, ignite). (various references)

Hungarian

feldühödik (fly off the handle, to blow one's stack, to blow one's top, to fire up). (various references)

Italian

preriscaldare il forno (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), portare in temperatura il forno (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up). (various references)

Pig Latin

irefay upay

Portuguese

pré-aquecer o forno (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), aquecer o forno (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up). (various references)

Romanian

se mânia (chafe, fling). (various references)

Russian 

вспылить (fall into a passion, flame out, flame up, fly into a passion, fly off the handle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prasnuti, planuti (blaze, break out, burst in, burst into, flare, flare up, flash). (various references)

Spanish

templar (anneal, key, plunge, quench, temper, tune, tune up), poner a temperatura (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), calentar (animate, enliven, freshen, heat, heat up, hot up, scald, stoke, vivify, warm, warm through, warm up). (various references)

Swedish

brusa upp (flame out, flame up, flare up). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: fire, peri, pfui, pier, pure, puri, reif, rife, ripe.

-3 letters: fer, feu, fie, fir, fur, ire, per, pie, piu, pur, ref, rei, rep, rif, rip, rue.

-4 letters: ef, er, if, pe, pi, re, up.

+1 letter: puffier.

+2 letters: fireplug, frumpier, prideful, purified, purifier, purifies, repurify, superfix, uplifter.

+3 letters: dipperful, fireplugs, frumpiest, ibuprofen, perfuming, perfusing, perfusion, prefigure, pufferies, purifiers, putrefied, putrefies, superfine, superfirm, superwife, uplifters.

+4 letters: copurified, copurifies, dipperfuls, grapefruit, ibuprofens, painfuller, perfidious, perfusions, pitcherful, pitifuller, prefigured, prefigures, prequalify, pridefully, putrefying, repurified, repurifies, superfirms, superfixes, superfluid.

+5 letters: cupriferous, grapefruits, gypsiferous, perfumeries, pestiferous, pitcherfuls, pitchersful, prefiguring, prefocusing, prestigeful, repurifying, spitefuller, superfamily, superficial, superficies, superfluids, superfluity, superinfect, superprofit.