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fire

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"Blaze in a hearth"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ˈfaɪ.ə/Part of speech verb, nounSorted efirStarts with FEnds with E18 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Flames; dismiss from a job

Word origin

From Middle English fyr, from Old English fȳr (“fire”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuir, from *fuïr, a regularised form of Proto-Germanic *fōr (“fire”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥.

Used in a sentence

  • “We sat about the fire singing songs and telling tales.”
  • “We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.”
  • “There was a fire at the school last night and the whole place burned down.”

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Used as a crossword answer18 curated clues

01“Blaze in a hearth”4 letters
02“Blaze in a pit”4 letters
03“Blazing hearth sight”4 letters
04“Blazing heat”4 letters
05“Burning flames”4 letters
06“Camp source of warmth”4 letters
07“Campground blaze”4 letters
08“Campground flames”4 letters
09“Campground glow”4 letters
10“Discharge from a job”4 letters
11“Flame source”4 letters
12“Flames and heat”4 letters
13“Flames for warmth”4 letters
14“Flames in a hearth”4 letters
15“Hearth glow”4 letters
16“Job-dismissal word”4 letters
17“Light a grill, say”4 letters
18“Hot flames”4 letters

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