Synonyms of the word

firing

• n. The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay etc to produce pottery.
• n. The fuel for a fire.
• n. The discharge of a gun or other weapon.
• n. The dismissal of someone from a job.
• v. present participle of fire.

attack

• n. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
• n. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by…
• n. A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
• n. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
• n. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane…
• n. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
• n. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
• n. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
• n. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that…
• n. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level…
• v. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines,…
• v. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
• v. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
• v. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
• v. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

burning

• v. present participle of burn.
• adj. So hot as to seem to burn (something).
• adj. Feeling very hot.
• adj. Feeling great passion.
• adj. Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
• n. The act by which something burns or is burned.
• n. A fire.

combustion

• n. (chemistry) The act or process of burning.
• n. A process where two chemicals are combined to produce heat.
• n. A process wherein a fuel is combined with oxygen, usually at high temperature, releasing heat.
• n. (figuratively) Violent agitation, tumult.

conclusion

• n. The end, finish, close or last part of something.
• n. The outcome or result of a process or act.
• n. A decision reached after careful thought.
• n. (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
• n. (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
• n. (law) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
• n. (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.

discharge

• v. To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
• v. To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
• v. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
• v. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
• v. To expel or let go.
• v. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
• v. (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
• v. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
• v. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
• v. To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
• v. To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the…
• v. To unload a ship or another means of transport.
• v. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or…
• v. To give forth; to emit or send out.
• v. To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
• v. (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
• v. (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
• n. (medicine, uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection…
• n. the act of accomplishing (an obligation); performance.
• n. the act of expelling or letting go.
• n. (electricity) the act of releasing an accumulated charge.
• n. (medicine) the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
• n. (military) the act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
• n. (hydrology) the volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of…

dismissal

• n. The act of sending someone away.
• n. Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
• n. A written or spoken statement of such an act.
• n. Release from confinement; liberation.
• n. Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.
• n. (law) The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.
• n. (cricket) The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.

dismission

• n. The act of dismissing or sending away (someone).
• n. Removal from office; termination of employment or services.
• n. The setting aside (of something) from consideration.

ending

• v. present participle of end.
• n. A termination or conclusion.
• n. The last part of something.
• n. (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending").

fire

• n. (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon…
• n. (countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained…
• n. (countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
• n. (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered a one of…
• n. (countable, Britain) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
• n. (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
• n. (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun.
• n. Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
• n. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
• n. Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
• n. (countable) A button (on a joypad, joystick or similar device) usually used to make a video game character…
• v. (transitive) To set (something) on fire.
• v. (transitive) To heat without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
• v. (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
• v. (transitive) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct…
• v. (transitive) To shoot (a device that launches a projectile or a pulse or stream of something).
• v. (intransitive) To shoot a gun, a cannon or a similar weapon.
• v. (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
• v. (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
• v. (intransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
• v. To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
• v. To animate; to give life or spirit to.
• v. To feed or serve the fire of.
• v. To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
• v. (farriery) To cauterize.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
• adj. (slang) Amazing.
• interj. A cry of distress indicating that something is on fire.
• interj. A signal to shoot.

ignition

• n. The act of igniting.
• n. The initiation of combustion.
• n. A system for activating combustion in a combustion engine.

inflammation

• n. The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire.
• n. The state of being inflamed.
• n. (medicine) A condition of any part of the body, consisting of congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction…
• n. (archaic) Violent excitement; heat; passion; animosity; turbulence.

kindling

• n. Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.
• n. The act by which something is kindled.
• v. present participle of kindle.

liberation

• n. The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
• n. The process of striving to achieve equal rights and status.

lighting

• n. The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.
• n. The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.
• n. The process of annealing metals.
• v. present participle of light.

onrush

• n. A forceful rush or flow forward.
• n. An aggressive assault.
• v. To rush or flow forward forcefully.
• v. To assault aggressively.

onset

• n. A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.
• n. (medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
• n. (phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
• n. (acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to…
• n. (obsolete) A setting about; a beginning.
• n. (obsolete) Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
• n. the start (of something).
• v. (obsolete) To assault; to set upon.
• v. (obsolete) To set about; to begin.

onslaught

• n. A fierce attack.
• n. A large number of people or things resembling an attack.

release

• n. The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked…
• n. (software) The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product;…
• n. Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
• n. That which is released, untied or let go.
• n. (biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
• n. (phonetics, sound synthesis) The act or manner of ending a sound.
• n. (railways, historical) In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be…
• n. A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required.
• v. To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
• v. To make available to the public.
• v. To free or liberate; to set free.
• v. To discharge.
• v. (telephony) (of a call) To hang up.
• v. (law) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying…
• v. To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
• v. (soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity.
• v. (biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.
• v. (transitive) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

sack

• n. A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities,…
• n. The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity…
• n. (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
• n. (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
• n. (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback. See verb sense⁴ below.
• n. (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
• n. (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack…
• n. (colloquial, US) Bed; usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.
• n. (dated) (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders,…
• n. (dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
• n. (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
• v. To put in a sack or sacks.
• v. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
• v. To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
• v. (American football) To tackle, usually to tackle the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage…
• v. (informal) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
• v. (colloquial) In the phrase sack out, to fall asleep. See also hit the sack.
• n. (dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine…
• v. Alternative spelling of sac.
• n. Alternative spelling of sac.

sacking

• n. (uncountable) Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks).
• n. (countable) Firing or termination of an employee.
• v. present participle of sack.

shooting

• v. present participle of shoot.
• n. (countable) An instance of shooting (a person) with a gun.
• n. (uncountable) The sport or activity of firing a gun.
• n. The act of one who, or that which, shoots.
• n. A sensation of darting pain.

shot

• adj. (colloquial) Worn out or broken.
• adj. (of material, especially silk) Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an…
• adj. Tired, weary.
• adj. Discharged, cleared, or rid of something.
• n. The result of launching a projectile or bullet.
• n. (sports) The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal.
• n. (athletics) The heavy iron ball used for the shot put.
• n. (uncountable) Small metal balls used as ammunition.
• n. (uncountable, military) Metal balls (or similar) used as ammunition; not necessarily small.
• n. (referring to one's skill at firing a gun) Someone who shoots (a gun) regularly.
• n. An opportunity or attempt.
• n. A remark or comment, especially one which is critical or insulting.
• n. (slang, sports, US) A punch or other physical blow.
• n. A measure of alcohol, usually spirits, as taken either from a shot-glass or directly from the bottle,…
• n. A single serving of espresso.
• n. (photography, film) A single unbroken sequence of photographic film exposures, or the digital equivalent;…
• n. A vaccination or injection.
• n. (US, Canada, baseball, informal) A home run that scores one, two, or three runs (a four run home run is…
• n. (US federal prison system) Written documentation of a behavior infraction.
• n. (fisheries) A cast of one or more nets.
• n. (fisheries) A place or spot for setting nets.
• n. (fisheries) A single draft or catch of fish made.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of shoot.
• v. (transitive) To load (a gun) with shot.
• n. A charge to be paid, a scot or shout.
• interj. (colloquial, South Africa) Thank you.

termination

• n. The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
• n. The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
• n. An end in time; a conclusion.
• n. An end in space; an edge or limit.
• n. An outcome or result.
• n. The last part of a word; an ending, a desinence; a suffix.
• n. (medicine) An induced abortion.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A word, a term.
• n. The ending up of a polypeptid chain.