affirm | (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: confirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain |
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(verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: assert, aver, avow, swan, swear, verify |
(verb) say yes to | - |
backfire | (verb) set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire | - |
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(verb) emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire | - |
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backlash, recoil |
confirm | (verb) make more firm | - |
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(verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain |
(verb) strengthen or make more firm | Synonyms: reassert |
(verb) administer the rite of confirmation to | - |
(verb) support a person for a position | - |
fire | (verb) bake in a kiln so as to harden | - |
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(verb) destroy by fire | Synonyms: burn, burn down |
(verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: ignite, light |
(verb) become ignited | Synonyms: flame up |
(verb) cause to go off | Synonyms: discharge |
(verb) start firing a weapon | Synonyms: open fire |
(verb) go off or discharge | Synonyms: discharge, go off |
(verb) generate an electrical impulse | - |
(verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, kindle, provoke, raise |
(verb) drive out or away by or as if by fire | - |
(verb) provide with fuel | Synonyms: fuel |
(verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
firebomb | (verb) attack with incendiary bombs | - |
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fireproof | (verb) make resistant to fire | - |
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firm | (verb) become taut or tauter | Synonyms: tauten |
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(verb) make taut or tauter | Synonyms: tauten |
misfire | (verb) fail to fire or detonate | - |
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reaffirm | (verb) affirm once again | - |
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reconfirm | (verb) confirm again | - |
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