What is another word for fire at?

Pronunciation: [fˈa͡ɪ͡əɹ at] (IPA)

There are numerous synonyms that could be used in place of the phrase "fire at". Some of these synonyms include shoot at, aim at, target, gun down, hit, strike, open fire, and let loose. Each of these synonyms essentially means the same thing: to forcefully and purposefully release a projectile or weapon toward a specific target. "Fire at" is commonly used in military contexts, but the aforementioned synonyms can be used in a wide range of situations, such as hunting, sport shooting, or even in casual conversation. It is important to choose the appropriate synonym based on the context in which it is being used.

What are the hypernyms for Fire at?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for fire at?

The word "fire at" has several different antonyms depending on the context in which the phrase is being used. One possible antonym for "fire at" could be "retreat," as this means to withdraw from an offensive position or cease attacking. Another antonym could be "protect," meaning to safeguard or keep something safe from harm. Alternatively, "negotiate" or "compromise" could serve as antonyms to "fire at" when referring to interpersonal conflicts or disagreements. Lastly, when talking about an employment context, "hire" could be used as an antonym, as this refers to bringing someone onto a team rather than expelling them.

What are the antonyms for Fire at?

Famous quotes with Fire at

  • Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
    Buffalo Bill
  • As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.
    Vito Fossella
  • Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword: neither doth the one burn nor the other wound him that comes not too near them.
    Cervantes
  • Defiling their shadows, infidels, accursed of Allah, with fingernails that are foot-long daggers, with mouths agape like cauldrons full of teeth on the boil, with eyes all fire, shaitans possessed of Iblis, clanking into their wars all linked, like slaves, with iron chains. Murad Bey, the huge, the single-blowed ox-beheader, saw without too much surprise mild-looking pale men dressed in blue, holding guns, drawn up in squares six deep as though in some massed dance depictive of orchard walls. At the corners of the squares were heavy giins and gunners. There did not seem to be many horsemen. Murad said a prayer within, raised his scimitar to heaven and yelled a fierce and holy word. The word was taken up, many thousandfold, and in a kind of gloved thunder the Mamelukes threw themselves on to the infidel right and nearly broke it. But the squares healed themselves at once, and the cavalry of the faithful crashed in three avenging prongs along the fire-spitting avenues between the walls. A great gun uttered earthquake language at them from within a square, and, rearing and cursing the curses of the archangels of Islam on to the uncircumcized, they wheeled and swung towards their protective village of Embabeh. There they encountered certain of the blue-clad infidel horde on the flat roofs of the houses, coughing musket-fire at them. But then disaster sang along their lines from the rear as shell after shell crunched and the Mamelukes roared in panic and burden to the screams of their terrified mounts, to whose ears these noises were new. Their rear dissolving, their retreat cut off, most sought the only way, that of the river. They plunged in, horseless, seeking to swim across to join the inactive horde of Ibrahim, waiting for .action that could now never come. Murad Bey, with such of his horsemen as were left, yelped off inland to Gizeh.
    Anthony Burgess
  • The Tippoo still led the fight. [...] Those gaudy stones made him a target for every redcoat and sepoy, yet he insisted on staying in the very front rank where he could pour his rifle fire at the stalled attackers, and his charms worked, for though the bullets flicked close none hit him. He was the Tiger of Mysore, he could not die, only kill.
    Bernard Cornwell

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