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1. firing
noun. ['ˈfaɪrɪŋ, ˈfaɪɝrɪŋ'] the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy.
Synonyms
- barrage fire
- counterpreparation fire
- preparation fire
- covering fire
- counterfire
- direct fire
- crossfire
- registration fire
- volley
- shelling
- fusillade
- observed fire
- attack
- scheduled fire
- fratricide
- antiaircraft fire
- concentrated fire
- cover
- cannon fire
- indirect fire
- unobserved fire
- destruction fire
- burst
- distributed fire
- supporting fire
- battery
- onslaught
- massed fire
- artillery fire
- neutralization fire
- harassing fire
- suppressive fire
- interdiction fire
- call fire
- radar fire
- salvo
- broadside
- searching fire
- onset
- bombardment
- hostile fire
- barrage
- onrush
- friendly fire
- grazing fire
Antonyms
Rhymes with Firing
- acquiring
- adhering
- admiring
- adoring
- airing
- alluring
- appearing
- aspiring
- assuring
- auctioneering
- barring
- careering
- caring
- chairing
- charring
- cheering
- childbearing
- comparing
- conspiring
- covering
Sentences with firing
1. Noun, singular or mass
Employees may not receive benefits if they are at substantial fault for their firing.
2. Verb, gerund or present participle
Technically this process involves firing each employee from the old company and hiring each one at the new corporation.
3. Adjective
If the clay is too thick or too thin the pottery can break during the firing process.
Quotes about firing
1. If faith never encounters doubt, if truth never struggles with error, if good never battles evil, how can faith know its own power? In my own pilgrimage, if I had to choose between a faith that has stared doubt in the eye and made it blink, or a naive faith that has never known the firing line of doubt, I will choose the former every time.
- Gary Parker
2. Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friendFight out life’s battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red,Threw down his broken sword and fled.Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away.
- Edwin Markham
4. firing
noun. ['ˈfaɪrɪŋ, ˈfaɪɝrɪŋ'] the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart).