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verb
To send through the air with a motion of the hand or arm
Synonyms: flinging, casting, darting, dashing, heaving, hurling, hurtling, launching, pitching, shooting, shying, slinging, throwing, tossing
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verb
Destroy by fire
Synonyms: dismissing, igniting, lighting, terminating, discharging, canning, booting, driving, vitalizing, torching, releasing, shooting, quickening, cashiering, burning, sacking, launching, kindling, irritating, inspiriting, inspiring, inflaming, inciting, illuminating, dropping, heating, glowing, flinging, exploding, exciting, ax, detonating, bouncing, blazing, baking, attacking, arousing, displacing, animating
Antonyms: hiring
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verb
To launch with great force
Synonyms: hurtling, loosing, projecting, propelling, shooting
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verb
Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
Synonyms: inspiring, arousing, kindling, provoking, inflaming, animating, raising, evoking, enkindling, stirring, eliciting, inspiriting
Antonyms: boring, deflating, dulling
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verb
Go off or discharge
Synonyms: discharging, shooting, hurling
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verb
To release or cause to release energy suddenly and violently, especially with a loud noise
Synonyms: blasting, blowing, bursting, detonating, exploding, fulminating
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verb
Provide with fuel
Synonyms: torching, ousting, fuelling, enkindling, kindling, lighting, igniting, discharging
Antonyms: hiring
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noun
The act of discharging a gun
Synonyms: fire, discharge, flammation, firing-off
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noun
The act of setting something on fire
Synonyms: ignition, lighting, kindling, inflammation
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noun
The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
Synonyms: dismissal, dismission, discharge, liberation, release, sack, sacking
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verb
To end the employment or service of; dismiss.
Synonyms: dismissing