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- found a flaw in the gun's firing
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- police officers firing rubber bullets
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- soldiers fired at the enemy in panic-stricken disorder
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- a school outing to the natural history museum fired his imagination, and he grew up to become an eminent paleontologist
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- enkindling,
- exciting,
- fermenting,
- fomenting,
- inciting,
- inflaming
- (also enflaming),
- instigating,
- kindling,
- provoking,
- setting off,
- sparking,
- triggering,
- turning on,
- whipping (up)
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- burning out,
- debilitating,
- doing in,
- draining,
- enervating,
- enfeebling,
- exhausting,
- fagging,
- fatiguing,
- harassing,
- kayoing,
- knocking out,
- sapping,
- tuckering (out),
- undermining,
- washing out,
- weakening,
- wearing,
- wearing out,
- wearying
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- fired the secretary for incompetence
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- fired a pass to the running back
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- lit some kindling before attempting to fire the logs
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- dousing
- (also dowsing),
- extinguishing,
- putting out,
- quenching,
- snuffing (out)
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“Firing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firing. Accessed 27 Feb. 2021.
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The first known use of firing was in the 14th century
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