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playing with fire
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playing with fire
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shoot out
collapse
related words >
antiaircraft fire
,
cross fire
,
curtain fire
,
direct fire
,
dry fire
,
file fire
,
fire
,
fire of demolition
,
firepower
,
fireworks
,
firing
,
flack
,
flak
,
ground fire
,
gunfight
,
gunfire
,
gunplay
,
high-angle fire
,
horizontal fire
,
interdiction fire
,
machine-gun fire
,
mortar fire
,
musketry
,
percussion fire
,
pistol fire
,
raking fire
,
rapid fire
,
ricochet fire
,
rifle fire
,
shellfire
,
shooting
,
time fire
,
vertical fire
,
zone fire
gunfight
collapse
a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten
related words >
antiaircraft fire
,
cross fire
,
curtain fire
,
direct fire
,
dry fire
,
file fire
,
fire
,
fire of demolition
,
firepower
,
fireworks
,
firing
,
flack
,
flak
,
ground fire
,
gunfire
,
gunplay
,
high-angle fire
,
horizontal fire
,
interdiction fire
,
machine-gun fire
,
mortar fire
,
musketry
,
percussion fire
,
pistol fire
,
raking fire
,
rapid fire
,
ricochet fire
,
rifle fire
,
shellfire
,
shoot-out
,
shooting
,
time fire
,
vertical fire
,
zone fire
shellfire
collapse
shooting artillery shells
related words >
antiaircraft fire
,
cross fire
,
curtain fire
,
direct fire
,
dry fire
,
file fire
,
fire
,
fire of demolition
,
firepower
,
fireworks
,
firing
,
flack
,
flak
,
ground fire
,
gunfight
,
gunfire
,
gunplay
,
high-angle fire
,
horizontal fire
,
interdiction fire
,
machine-gun fire
,
mortar fire
,
musketry
,
percussion fire
,
pistol fire
,
raking fire
,
rapid fire
,
ricochet fire
,
rifle fire
,
shoot-out
,
shooting
,
time fire
,
vertical fire
,
zone fire
flack
collapse
related words >
advocacy
,
advocating
,
antiaircraft fire
,
bruiting
,
buildup
,
cross fire
,
curtain fire
,
direct fire
,
drumbeating
,
dry fire
,
file fire
,
fire
,
fire of demolition
,
firepower
,
fireworks
,
firing
,
flak
,
ground fire
,
gunfight
,
gunfire
,
gunplay
,
high-angle fire
,
horizontal fire
,
interdiction fire
,
machine-gun fire
,
mortar fire
,
musketry
,
percussion fire
,
pistol fire
,
promoting
,
promotion
,
publicization
,
publicizing
,
raking fire
,
rapid fire
,
ricochet fire
,
rifle fire
,
shellfire
,
shoot-out
,
shooting
,
time fire
,
vertical fire
,
zone fire
firepower
collapse
(military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a target
related words >
antiaircraft fire
,
cross fire
,
curtain fire
,
direct fire
,
dry fire
,
fighting force
,
file fire
,
fire
,
fire of demolition
,
fireworks
,
firing
,
flack
,
flak
,
forces
,
ground fire
,
gunfight
,
gunfire
,
gunplay
,
hands
,
high-angle fire
,
horizontal fire
,
interdiction fire
,
machine-gun fire
,
men
,
mortar fire
,
musketry
,
percussion fire
,
personnel
,
pistol fire
,
raking fire
,
rapid fire
,
ricochet fire
,
rifle fire
,
shellfire
,
shoot-out
,
shooting
,
the big battalions
,
time fire
,
troops
,
units
,
vertical fire
,
work force
,
zone fire
gunfire
collapse
the act of shooting a gun; "the gunfire endangered innocent bystanders"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"
related words >
antiaircraft fire
,
bowshot
,
bullet
,
cannon
,
cross fire
,
curtain fire
,
detonation
,
direct fire
,
discharge
,
dry fire
,
ejection
,
file fire
,
fire
,
fire of demolition
,
firepower
,
fireworks
,
firing
,
flack
,
flak
,
fusillade
,
ground fire
,
gun
,
gunfight
,
gunplay
,
gunshot
,
high-angle fire
,
horizontal fire
,
interdiction fire
,
machine-gun fire
,
mortar fire
,
musketry
,
percussion fire
,
pistol fire
,
potshot
,
raking fire
,
rapid fire
,
ricochet fire
,
rifle fire
,
salvo
,
shellfire
,
shoot-out
,
shooting
,
shot
,
spray
,
stoneshot
,
tattoo
,
time fire
,
vertical fire
,
volley
,
zone fire
fireworks
collapse
related words >
Roman candle
,
antiaircraft fire
,
bomb
,
cap
,
cherry bomb
,
cracker
,
cross fire
,
curtain fire
,
direct fire
,
dry fire
,
file fire
,
fire
,
fire of demolition
,
firecracker
,
firepower
,
firework
,
firing
,
flack
,
flak
,
flare
,
flowerpot
,
girandole
,
ground fire
,
gunfight
,
gunfire
,
gunplay
,
high-angle fire
,
horizontal fire
,
interdiction fire
,
ladyfinger
,
machine-gun fire
,
mortar fire
,
musketry
,
percussion fire
,
pinwheel
,
pistol fire
,
pyrotechnic
,
pyrotechnics
,
pyrotechny
,
raking fire
,
rapid fire
,
ricochet fire
,
rifle fire
,
rocket
,
serpent
,
shellfire
,
shoot-out
,
shooting
,
skyrocket
,
snake
,
sparkler
,
squib
,
time fire
,
torpedo
,
vertical fire
,
zone fire
conflagration
collapse
a very intense and uncontrolled fire
related words >
backfire
,
balefire
,
beacon
,
beacon fire
,
blaze
,
bonfire
,
burning ghat
,
campfire
,
cheerful fire
,
combustion
,
corposant
,
cozy fire
,
crackling fire
,
crematory
,
death fire
,
fen fire
,
fire
,
flame
,
flashing point
,
flicker
,
flickering flame
,
forest fire
,
fox fire
,
funeral pyre
,
holocaust
,
ignis fatuus
,
ignition
,
inferno
,
ingle
,
lambent flame
,
marshfire
,
open fire
,
prairie fire
,
pyre
,
raging fire
,
sea of flames
,
sheet of fire
,
signal beacon
,
smudge fire
,
three-alarm fire
,
two-alarm fire
,
watch fire
,
wildfire
,
witch fire
cross fire
collapse
related words >
alternation
,
antiaircraft fire
,
battledore and shuttlecock
,
commutation
,
cooperation
,
counterchange
,
curtain fire
,
direct fire
,
dry fire
,
exchange
,
file fire
,
fire
,
fire of demolition
,
firepower
,
fireworks
,
firing
,
flack
,
flak
,
give-and-take
,
ground fire
,
gunfight
,
gunfire
,
gunplay
,
high-angle fire
,
horizontal fire
,
interchange
,
interdiction fire
,
intermutation
,
interplay
,
lex talionis
,
machine-gun fire
,
measure for measure
,
mortar fire
,
musketry
,
mutual admiration
,
mutual support
,
mutual transfer
,
mutuality
,
percussion fire
,
permutation
,
pistol fire
,
quid pro quo
,
raking fire
,
rapid fire
,
reciprocality
,
reciprocation
,
reciprocity
,
retaliation
,
ricochet fire
,
rifle fire
,
shellfire
,
shoot-out
,
shooting
,
something for something
,
time fire
,
tit for tat
,
transposal
,
transposition
,
vertical fire
,
zone fire
puttering
collapse
related words >
coquetry
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
fiddling
,
flirtation
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
idling
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
loitering
,
messing around
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
smattering
,
tinkering
,
toying
,
trifling
tinkering
collapse
related words >
coquetry
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
fiddling
,
flirtation
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
idling
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
loitering
,
messing around
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
puttering
,
smattering
,
toying
,
trifling
monkeying
collapse
related words >
coquetry
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
fiddling
,
flirtation
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
idling
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
loitering
,
messing around
,
monkeying around
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
puttering
,
smattering
,
tinkering
,
toying
,
trifling
lambent
collapse
related words >
aflicker
,
barely touching
,
beaming
,
bickering
,
blinking
,
brilliant
,
dancing
,
effulgent
,
flashing
,
flickering
,
flickery
,
flicky
,
fluttering
,
fluttery
,
incandescent
,
lucent
,
luminous
,
lustrous
,
playing
,
playing lightly over
,
quivering
,
quivery
,
radiant
,
refulgent
,
stroboscopic
,
wavering
,
wavery
pyre
collapse
wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
related words >
backfire
,
balefire
,
beacon
,
beacon fire
,
blaze
,
bonfire
,
burning
,
burning ghat
,
campfire
,
cheerful fire
,
combustion
,
conflagration
,
corposant
,
cozy fire
,
crackling fire
,
cremation
,
crematory
,
death fire
,
fen fire
,
fire
,
flame
,
flashing point
,
flicker
,
flickering flame
,
forest fire
,
fox fire
,
funeral pile
,
funeral pyre
,
ignis fatuus
,
ignition
,
incineration
,
ingle
,
lambent flame
,
marshfire
,
open fire
,
prairie fire
,
raging fire
,
reduction to ashes
,
sea of flames
,
sheet of fire
,
signal beacon
,
smudge fire
,
three-alarm fire
,
two-alarm fire
,
watch fire
,
wildfire
,
witch fire
musketry
collapse
the technique of using small arms (especially in battle)
musketeers and their muskets collectively
related words >
A-weapons
,
antiaircraft fire
,
archery
,
armament
,
arms
,
artillery
,
ballistics
,
biological weapons
,
casting
,
chucking
,
conventional weapons
,
cross fire
,
curtain fire
,
deadly weapons
,
direct fire
,
dry fire
,
file fire
,
fire
,
fire of demolition
,
firepower
,
fireworks
,
firing
,
flack
,
flak
,
flinging
,
ground fire
,
gunfight
,
gunfire
,
gunnery
,
gunplay
,
heaving
,
high-angle fire
,
horizontal fire
,
hurling
,
instruments of destruction
,
interdiction fire
,
jaculation
,
lobbing
,
machine-gun fire
,
missilery
,
mortar fire
,
munitions
,
nuclear weapons
,
ordnance
,
percussion fire
,
pistol fire
,
pitching
,
projection
,
raking fire
,
rapid fire
,
ricochet fire
,
rifle fire
,
rocketry
,
shellfire
,
shoot-out
,
shooting
,
side arms
,
skeet
,
skeet shooting
,
slinging
,
small arms
,
thermonuclear weapons
,
throwing
,
time fire
,
trajection
,
trapshooting
,
vertical fire
,
weaponry
,
weapons
,
zone fire
coquetry
collapse
related words >
amorous looks
,
come-hither look
,
coquettish glances
,
coquettishness
,
coyness
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
fiddling
,
flirtation
,
flirtatiousness
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
goo-goo eyes
,
idling
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
loitering
,
messing around
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
ogle
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
puttering
,
smattering
,
tinkering
,
toying
,
trifling
fox fire
collapse
related words >
autoluminescence
,
backfire
,
balefire
,
beacon
,
beacon fire
,
bioluminescence
,
blaze
,
bonfire
,
burning ghat
,
campfire
,
cathode luminescence
,
cheerful fire
,
chemicoluminescence
,
chemiluminescence
,
combustion
,
conflagration
,
corposant
,
cozy fire
,
crackling fire
,
crematory
,
crystalloluminescence
,
death fire
,
double corposant
,
electroluminescence
,
fata morgana
,
fen fire
,
fire
,
flame
,
flashing point
,
flicker
,
flickering flame
,
fluorescence
,
forest fire
,
funeral pyre
,
ignis fatuus
,
ignition
,
ingle
,
lambent flame
,
luciferase
,
luciferin
,
luminescence
,
luminophor
,
marshfire
,
noctiluscence
,
open fire
,
phosphor
,
phosphorescence
,
photoluminescence
,
prairie fire
,
pyre
,
radioluminescence
,
raging fire
,
sea of flames
,
sheet of fire
,
signal beacon
,
smudge fire
,
thermoluminescence
,
three-alarm fire
,
tribofluorescence
,
triboluminescence
,
tribophosphorescence
,
two-alarm fire
,
watch fire
,
wildfire
,
wisp
,
witch fire
ignite
collapse
cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat; "Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter"; "Light a cigarette"
related words >
bank
,
blaze up
,
burn
,
conflagrate
,
enkindle
,
fan the flame
,
feed
,
feed the fire
,
fire
,
fire up
,
flame up
,
flare up
,
inflame
,
kindle
,
light
,
light up
,
rekindle
,
relight
,
relume
,
set fire to
,
set on fire
,
spunk up
,
stir the fire
,
stoke
,
stoke the fire
,
strike a light
,
take fire
,
torch
,
touch off
ignition
collapse
the act of setting something on fire
the mechanism that ignites the fuel in an internal-combustion engine
the process of initiating combustion or catching fire
related words >
altitude peak
,
automatic control
,
backfire
,
balefire
,
beacon
,
beacon fire
,
blast-off
,
blaze
,
bonfire
,
burn
,
burning ghat
,
burnout
,
campfire
,
ceiling
,
cheerful fire
,
combustion
,
conflagration
,
corposant
,
cozy fire
,
crackling fire
,
crematory
,
death fire
,
descent
,
end of burning
,
fen fire
,
fire
,
firing
,
flame
,
flammation
,
flashing point
,
flicker
,
flickering flame
,
flight
,
forest fire
,
fox fire
,
funeral pyre
,
ignis fatuus
,
impact
,
inflammation
,
ingle
,
kindling
,
lambent flame
,
launch
,
lift-off
,
lighting
,
lighting up
,
marshfire
,
open fire
,
prairie fire
,
pyre
,
raging fire
,
rocket launching
,
sea of flames
,
sheet of fire
,
shoot
,
shot
,
signal beacon
,
smudge fire
,
three-alarm fire
,
trajectory
,
two-alarm fire
,
velocity peak
,
watch fire
,
wildfire
,
witch fire
combustion
collapse
a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
a state of violent disturbance and excitement; "combustion grew until revolt was unavoidable"
related words >
backfire
,
balefire
,
beacon
,
beacon fire
,
blaze
,
blazing
,
blistering
,
bonfire
,
branding
,
burning
,
burning ghat
,
calcination
,
campfire
,
carbonization
,
cauterization
,
cautery
,
cheerful fire
,
cineration
,
concremation
,
conflagration
,
corposant
,
cozy fire
,
cracking
,
crackling fire
,
cremation
,
crematory
,
cupellation
,
death fire
,
deflagration
,
destructive distillation
,
distillation
,
distilling
,
fen fire
,
fire
,
flame
,
flaming
,
flashing point
,
flicker
,
flickering flame
,
forest fire
,
fox fire
,
funeral pyre
,
ignis fatuus
,
ignition
,
incineration
,
ingle
,
lambent flame
,
marshfire
,
open fire
,
oxidation
,
oxidization
,
parching
,
prairie fire
,
pyre
,
pyrolysis
,
raging fire
,
refining
,
scorching
,
scorification
,
sea of flames
,
searing
,
self-immolation
,
sheet of fire
,
signal beacon
,
singeing
,
smelting
,
smudge fire
,
suttee
,
the stake
,
thermogenesis
,
three-alarm fire
,
two-alarm fire
,
vesication
,
watch fire
,
wildfire
,
witch fire
ingle
collapse
related words >
ancestral halls
,
backfire
,
balefire
,
beacon
,
beacon fire
,
blaze
,
bonfire
,
burning ghat
,
campfire
,
cheerful fire
,
chimney
,
chimney corner
,
combustion
,
conflagration
,
corposant
,
cozy fire
,
crackling fire
,
crematory
,
death fire
,
family homestead
,
fen fire
,
fender
,
fire
,
fire screen
,
fireboard
,
fireguard
,
fireplace
,
fireside
,
flame
,
flashing point
,
flicker
,
flickering flame
,
flue
,
forest fire
,
fox fire
,
foyer
,
funeral pyre
,
hearth
,
hearth and home
,
hearthstone
,
hob
,
home
,
home place
,
home roof
,
home sweet home
,
homestead
,
household
,
hub
,
ignis fatuus
,
ignition
,
inglenook
,
ingleside
,
lambent flame
,
marshfire
,
menage
,
open fire
,
paternal roof
,
prairie fire
,
pyre
,
raging fire
,
roof
,
rooftree
,
sea of flames
,
sheet of fire
,
signal beacon
,
smokehole
,
smudge fire
,
three-alarm fire
,
toft
,
two-alarm fire
,
watch fire
,
wildfire
,
witch fire
conflagrate
collapse
related words >
bank
,
burn
,
enkindle
,
fan the flame
,
feed
,
feed the fire
,
fire
,
ignite
,
inflame
,
kindle
,
light
,
light up
,
rekindle
,
relight
,
relume
,
set fire to
,
set on fire
,
stir the fire
,
stoke
,
stoke the fire
,
strike a light
,
torch
,
touch off
audacity
collapse
aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery; "he had the audacity to question my decision"
fearless daring
related words >
adventuresomeness
,
adventurousness
,
arrogance
,
assurance
,
audaciousness
,
balls
,
bold front
,
boldness
,
brash bearing
,
brashness
,
brass
,
brassiness
,
bravado
,
bravura
,
brazenness
,
brinkmanship
,
bumptiousness
,
cheek
,
cheekiness
,
cockiness
,
contempt
,
contemptuousness
,
contumely
,
courage
,
courage fou
,
courting disaster
,
daredevilry
,
daredeviltry
,
daring
,
daringness
,
defial
,
defiance
,
defying
,
derision
,
derring-do
,
despite
,
disdain
,
disregard
,
effrontery
,
enterprise
,
face
,
fire-eating
,
flirting with death
,
foolhardiness
,
forwardness
,
gall
,
going for broke
,
hardihood
,
hardiness
,
harebrainedness
,
hubris
,
impertinence
,
impudence
,
insolence
,
mettle
,
nerve
,
obtrusiveness
,
overboldness
,
overweening
,
overweeningness
,
pertness
,
playing with fire
,
presumption
,
presumptuousness
,
procacity
,
pushiness
,
resolution
,
sauciness
,
spirit
,
uppishness
,
uppityness
,
venturesomeness
,
venturousness
touch off
collapse
related words >
backfire
,
bank
,
blast
,
blow out
,
blow up
,
burn
,
burst
,
bust
,
conflagrate
,
detonate
,
discharge
,
enkindle
,
explode
,
fan the flame
,
feed
,
feed the fire
,
fire
,
fulminate
,
go off
,
ignite
,
inflame
,
kindle
,
let off
,
light
,
light the fuse
,
light up
,
rekindle
,
relight
,
relume
,
set fire to
,
set off
,
set on fire
,
shoot
,
spark
,
stir the fire
,
stoke
,
stoke the fire
,
strike a light
,
torch
,
trigger
loitering
collapse
related words >
Micawberish
,
backward
,
coquetry
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
dawdling
,
delaying
,
dilatoriness
,
dilatory
,
dillydallying
,
dolce far niente
,
dragging
,
easygoing
,
fiddling
,
flirtation
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
foot-dragging
,
goofing off
,
idling
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
lackadaisical
,
lag
,
laggard
,
lagging
,
lax
,
lazing
,
lazy
,
lingering
,
loafing
,
lolling
,
lollygagging
,
lounging
,
messing around
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
mopery
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
procrastinating
,
procrastination
,
procrastinative
,
procrastinatory
,
puttering
,
remiss
,
shilly-shallying
,
shuffling
,
slack
,
slow
,
sluggish
,
smattering
,
tarrying
,
tinkering
,
toying
,
trifling
brinkmanship
collapse
the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety)
related words >
Eisenhower Doctrine
,
Monroe Doctrine
,
Nixon Doctrine
,
Truman Doctrine
,
adventurousness
,
appeasement
,
audaciousness
,
audacity
,
balance of power
,
boldness
,
coexistence
,
colonialism
,
compromise
,
containment
,
courage fou
,
courting disaster
,
daredevilry
,
daredeviltry
,
daring
,
detente
,
deterrence
,
diplomacy
,
diplomatic
,
diplomatics
,
dollar diplomacy
,
dollar imperialism
,
expansionism
,
fire-eating
,
flirting with death
,
foolhardiness
,
foreign affairs
,
foreign policy
,
forwardness
,
going for broke
,
good-neighbor policy
,
harebrainedness
,
imperialism
,
internationalism
,
isolationism
,
manifest destiny
,
militarism
,
nationalism
,
neocolonialism
,
neutralism
,
nonresistance
,
open door
,
open-door policy
,
peace offensive
,
peaceful coexistence
,
playing with fire
,
preparedness
,
presumption
,
presumptuousness
,
shirt-sleeve diplomacy
,
shuttle diplomacy
,
spheres of influence
,
the big stick
,
tough policy
,
world politics
dallying
collapse
related words >
Micawberish
,
backward
,
coquetry
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dawdling
,
delaying
,
dilatoriness
,
dilatory
,
dillydallying
,
dolce far niente
,
dragging
,
easygoing
,
fiddling
,
flirtation
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
foot-dragging
,
goofing off
,
idling
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
lackadaisical
,
lag
,
laggard
,
lagging
,
lax
,
lazing
,
lazy
,
lingering
,
loafing
,
loitering
,
lolling
,
lollygagging
,
lounging
,
messing around
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
mopery
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
procrastinating
,
procrastination
,
procrastinative
,
procrastinatory
,
puttering
,
remiss
,
shilly-shallying
,
shuffling
,
slack
,
slow
,
sluggish
,
smattering
,
tarriance
,
tarrying
,
tinkering
,
toying
,
trifling
,
waiting
ignis fatuus
collapse
related words >
airy nothing
,
autism
,
autoluminescence
,
backfire
,
balefire
,
beacon
,
beacon fire
,
bioluminescence
,
blaze
,
bonfire
,
bubble
,
burning ghat
,
campfire
,
cathode luminescence
,
cheerful fire
,
chemicoluminescence
,
chemiluminescence
,
chimera
,
combustion
,
conflagration
,
corposant
,
cozy fire
,
crackling fire
,
crematory
,
crystalloluminescence
,
daydream
,
death fire
,
deception
,
deluded belief
,
delusion
,
dereism
,
double corposant
,
dream
,
dream vision
,
dreamland
,
dreamworld
,
electroluminescence
,
false belief
,
fata morgana
,
fen fire
,
fire
,
flame
,
flashing point
,
flicker
,
flickering flame
,
fluorescence
,
forest fire
,
fox fire
,
funeral pyre
,
hallucination
,
ignition
,
illusion
,
ingle
,
lambent flame
,
luciferase
,
luciferin
,
luminescence
,
luminophor
,
marshfire
,
mirage
,
misbelief
,
misconception
,
noctiluscence
,
open fire
,
phantasm
,
phosphor
,
phosphorescence
,
photoluminescence
,
pipe dream
,
prairie fire
,
pyre
,
radioluminescence
,
raging fire
,
sea of flames
,
self-deceit
,
self-deception
,
self-delusion
,
sheet of fire
,
signal beacon
,
smudge fire
,
thermoluminescence
,
three-alarm fire
,
tribofluorescence
,
triboluminescence
,
tribophosphorescence
,
trick
,
trip
,
two-alarm fire
,
vapor
,
watch fire
,
wildfire
,
wisp
,
witch fire
,
wrong impression
mimicry
collapse
the resemblance of an animal species to another species or to natural objects; provides concealment and protection from predators
related words >
acting
,
aggressive mimicry
,
apery
,
aping
,
buffoonery
,
business
,
caricature
,
characterization
,
cryptic mimicry
,
dumb show
,
embodiment
,
enacting
,
enactment
,
gag
,
ham
,
hammy acting
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
incarnation
,
masquerade
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
miming
,
mock
,
mockery
,
mummery
,
overacting
,
pantomime
,
pantomiming
,
parody
,
parrotry
,
patter
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
personification
,
playacting
,
playing
,
playing possum
,
portrayal
,
posing
,
projection
,
protective coloration
,
representation
,
slapstick
,
stage business
,
stage directions
,
stage presence
,
stunt
,
synaposematic mimicry
,
taking a role
flameproof
collapse
resistant to catching fire
related words >
airtight
,
ballproof
,
bombproof
,
bulletproof
,
burglarproof
,
corrosionproof
,
dampproof
,
fire-resistant
,
fire-resisting
,
fire-retardant
,
fire-retarded
,
fireproof
,
fireproofed
,
foolproof
,
hermetic
,
holeproof
,
impervious to
,
leakproof
,
noiseproof
,
proof
,
proof against
,
punctureproof
,
resistant
,
rustproof
,
shatterproof
,
shellproof
,
soundproof
,
tight
,
watertight
,
weatherproof
dalliance
collapse
the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working
related words >
amorous dalliance
,
amorous looks
,
billing and cooing
,
bundling
,
caressing
,
come-hither look
,
coquetry
,
coquettish glances
,
coquettishness
,
coyness
,
cuddling
,
dabbling
,
dallying
,
dawdling
,
dilatoriness
,
dillydallying
,
fiddling
,
flirtation
,
flirtatiousness
,
fondling
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
goo-goo eyes
,
hugging
,
idling
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
kissing
,
lag
,
lagging
,
lingering
,
loitering
,
lollygagging
,
lovemaking
,
messing around
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
necking
,
nestling
,
nuzzling
,
ogle
,
petting
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
procrastination
,
puttering
,
sexual intercourse
,
shilly-shallying
,
smattering
,
snuggling
,
spooning
,
tarriance
,
tarrying
,
tinkering
,
toying
,
trifling
,
waiting
flak
collapse
related words >
abuse
,
adverse criticism
,
aggressiveness
,
animadversion
,
antiaircraft fire
,
artillery
,
aspersion
,
bad notices
,
bad press
,
battery
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
bickering
,
blame
,
cannon
,
cannonry
,
captiousness
,
carping
,
cavil
,
caviling
,
censoriousness
,
censure
,
coast artillery
,
combativeness
,
complaints
,
condemnation
,
contentiousness
,
criticism
,
cross fire
,
curtain fire
,
direct fire
,
disapprobation
,
disapproval
,
dissension
,
dissent
,
dissidence
,
dry fire
,
exception
,
faction
,
factiousness
,
faultfinding
,
field artillery
,
file fire
,
fire
,
fire of demolition
,
firepower
,
fireworks
,
firing
,
flack
,
ground fire
,
gunfight
,
gunfire
,
gunplay
,
hairsplitting
,
heavy field artillery
,
high-angle fire
,
hit
,
home thrust
,
horizontal fire
,
hostile criticism
,
hypercriticalness
,
hypercriticism
,
imputation
,
infighting
,
interdiction fire
,
irascibility
,
irritability
,
knock
,
litigiousness
,
machine-gun fire
,
mortar fire
,
musketry
,
nagging
,
niggle
,
niggling
,
nit
,
nit-picking
,
obloquy
,
ordnance
,
overcriticalness
,
partisan spirit
,
partisanship
,
percussion fire
,
pestering
,
pettifogging
,
pistol fire
,
priggishness
,
pugnacity
,
quarrelsomeness
,
quibble
,
quibbling
,
raking fire
,
rap
,
rapid fire
,
reflection
,
reproachfulness
,
ricochet fire
,
rifle fire
,
shellfire
,
shoot-out
,
shooting
,
shrewishness
,
siege artillery
,
siege engine
,
slam
,
stricture
,
swipe
,
taking exception
,
time fire
,
trench artillery
,
trichoschistism
,
vertical fire
,
zone fire
fireproof
collapse
impervious to damage by fire
make resistant to fire
related words >
airtight
,
ballproof
,
bombproof
,
bulletproof
,
burglarproof
,
corrosionproof
,
dampproof
,
fire-resistant
,
fire-resisting
,
fire-retardant
,
fire-retarded
,
fireproofed
,
flameproof
,
foolproof
,
hermetic
,
holeproof
,
impervious to
,
insulate
,
leakproof
,
noiseproof
,
proof
,
proof against
,
punctureproof
,
resistant
,
rustproof
,
shatterproof
,
shellproof
,
soundproof
,
tight
,
waterproof
,
watertight
,
weatherproof
stoke
collapse
stir up or tend; of a fire
related words >
bank
,
burn
,
chafe
,
coal
,
conflagrate
,
cook
,
detonate
,
electric-heat
,
enkindle
,
explode
,
fan the flame
,
feed
,
feed the fire
,
fill up
,
fire
,
fire up
,
foment
,
fuel
,
fuel up
,
fulminate
,
gas-heat
,
heat
,
hot
,
hot up
,
hot-air-heat
,
hot-water-heat
,
ignite
,
inflame
,
kindle
,
light
,
light up
,
mull
,
oil
,
overheat
,
preheat
,
recook
,
refuel
,
reheat
,
rekindle
,
relight
,
relume
,
set fire to
,
set on fire
,
steam
,
stir the fire
,
stoke the fire
,
stoke up
,
strike a light
,
superheat
,
tepefy
,
top off
,
torch
,
touch off
,
warm
,
warm over
,
warm up
asbestos
collapse
a fibrous amphibole; used for making fireproof articles; inhaling fibers can cause asbestosis or lung cancer
related words >
act drop
,
amianthus
,
asbestos board
,
asbestos curtain
,
backdrop
,
batten
,
border
,
cloth
,
coulisse
,
counterweight
,
curtain
,
curtain board
,
cyclorama
,
decor
,
drop
,
drop curtain
,
earth flax
,
fire break
,
fire curtain
,
fire line
,
fire resistance
,
fire retardant
,
fire wall
,
fireproofing
,
flat
,
flipper
,
hanging
,
mountain flax
,
rag
,
scene
,
scenery
,
screen
,
side scene
,
stage screw
,
tab
,
tableau
,
teaser
,
tormentor
,
transformation
,
transformation scene
,
wing
,
wingcut
,
woodcut
snipe
collapse
a gunshot from a concealed location
Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks
hunt or shoot snipe
related words >
aim at
,
attack
,
barrage
,
blast
,
blitz
,
bombard
,
cannon
,
cannonade
,
carp at
,
charge
,
cock
,
commence firing
,
criticize
,
deride
,
detonate
,
discharge
,
drop
,
eject
,
enfilade
,
fell
,
fire
,
fire a volley
,
fire at
,
fire off
,
fire upon
,
fusillade
,
gun
,
gun for
,
hit
,
knock
,
let fly
,
let off
,
load
,
mortar
,
open fire
,
open up on
,
pan
,
pelt
,
pepper
,
pick off
,
pistol
,
plug
,
pop at
,
pot
,
potshoot
,
potshot
,
prime
,
rake
,
rap
,
riddle
,
shell
,
shoot
,
shoot at
,
shoot down
,
slam
,
snipe at
,
strafe
,
strike
,
take a potshot
,
take aim at
,
torpedo
,
zero in on
rekindle
collapse
arouse again; "rekindle hopes"; "rekindle her love"
kindle anew, as of a fire
related words >
bank
,
bring back
,
bring to
,
burn
,
call back
,
conflagrate
,
enkindle
,
fan the flame
,
feed
,
feed the fire
,
fire
,
ignite
,
inflame
,
kindle
,
light
,
light up
,
reactivate
,
reanimate
,
recall to life
,
recharge
,
recruit
,
refresh
,
regenerate
,
reheat the ashes
,
reinspire
,
rejuvenate
,
relight
,
relume
,
renew
,
renovate
,
resurrect
,
resuscitate
,
retrieve
,
revitalize
,
revive
,
revivify
,
rewarm
,
set fire to
,
set on fire
,
stir the embers
,
stir the fire
,
stoke
,
stoke the fire
,
strike a light
,
torch
,
touch off
,
warm over
,
warm up
open fire
collapse
start firing a weapon
related words >
aim at
,
barrage
,
blast
,
blitz
,
bombard
,
breach
,
cannon
,
cannonade
,
commence firing
,
enfilade
,
fire a volley
,
fire at
,
fire upon
,
fusillade
,
mortar
,
open
,
open up
,
open up on
,
pepper
,
pop at
,
rake
,
shell
,
shoot
,
shoot at
,
snipe
,
snipe at
,
strafe
,
take aim at
,
torpedo
,
zero in on
backfire
collapse
a miscalculation that recoils on its maker
a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path
a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine
set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire
emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire; "My old car backfires all the time"
come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"
related words >
backlash
,
backlashing
,
balefire
,
bang
,
beacon
,
beacon fire
,
blast
,
blaze
,
blow out
,
blow up
,
blowout
,
blowup
,
bonfire
,
boom
,
boomerang
,
bounce
,
bounce back
,
bound
,
bound back
,
burning ghat
,
burst
,
bust
,
campfire
,
cannon
,
cannon off
,
carom
,
cheerful fire
,
combustion
,
come to grief
,
comeback
,
conflagration
,
contrecoup
,
corposant
,
counterattack
,
counterblast
,
counterblow
,
counterfire
,
counterinsurgency
,
countermeasure
,
counterrevolution
,
counterstep
,
counterstroke
,
cozy fire
,
crackling fire
,
crematory
,
death fire
,
defense
,
detonate
,
detonation
,
discharge
,
explode
,
explosion
,
fall through
,
fen fire
,
fire
,
fizzle
,
flame
,
flare
,
flash
,
flashing point
,
flicker
,
flickering flame
,
fly back
,
forest fire
,
fox fire
,
fulguration
,
fulminate
,
fulmination
,
funeral pyre
,
go off
,
have repercussions
,
ignis fatuus
,
ignition
,
ingle
,
kick
,
kick back
,
kickback
,
lambent flame
,
lash back
,
lay an egg
,
let off
,
marshfire
,
miscarry
,
miss
,
open fire
,
prairie fire
,
pyre
,
raging fire
,
rebound
,
rebuff
,
recalcitrate
,
recalcitration
,
recoil
,
repercuss
,
repercussion
,
report
,
repulse
,
resile
,
resilience
,
retort
,
ricochet
,
sea of flames
,
set off
,
sheet of fire
,
shoot
,
signal beacon
,
smudge fire
,
snap back
,
spring
,
spring back
,
three-alarm fire
,
touch off
,
two-alarm fire
,
watch fire
,
wildfire
,
witch fire
strafe
collapse
an attack of machine-gun fire or cannon fire from a low flying airplane; "the next morning they carried out a strafe of enemy airfields"
attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane; "civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country's surrender"
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