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1. Having lost your job
   - discharged, dismissed, laid-off, pink-slipped

1. Start firing a weapon
   - open fire
    
2. Cause to go off
   "fire a bullet"; "fire a gun";
   - discharge
    
3. (cooking) bake in a kiln so as to harden
   "fire pottery"
    
4. Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
   "The boss fired his secretary today";
   - displace, give notice, can [N. Amer, informal], dismiss, give the axe [informal], send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
    
5. Go off or discharge
   "The gun fired";
   - discharge, go off
    
6. Drive out or away by or as if by fire
   "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold scepticism"
    
7. Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
   - arouse, elicit, enkindle [literary], kindle, evoke, raise, provoke
    
8. Destroy by fire
   - burn, burn down
    
9. Provide as a source of energy or heat
   "Oil fires the furnace";
   - fuel
    
10. (physiology) generate an electrical impulse
    "the neurons fired fast"
     
11. Become ignited
    "The furnace wouldn't fire";
    - flame up
     
12. Start or maintain a fire in
    "fire the furnace";
    - light, ignite

See also: unemployed

Type of: bake, blast, chase away, create, destroy, dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, furnish, generate, make, offer, provide, remove, render, ruin, run off, shoot, supply, turn back

Encyclopedia: Fired