FIRE UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fire up mean? 

• FIRE UP (verb)
  The verb FIRE UP has 2 senses:

1. arouse or excite feelings and passions

2. begin to smoke

  Familiarity information: FIRE UP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIRE UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arouse or excite feelings and passions

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

fire up; heat; ignite; inflame; stir up; wake

Context example:

Wake old feelings of hatred

Hypernyms (to "fire up" is one way to...):

arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fire up"):

ferment (work up into agitation or excitement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Begin to smoke

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

fire up; light; light up

Context example:

After the meal, some of the diners lit up

Hypernyms (to "fire up" is one way to...):

ignite; light (cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat)

"Fire up" entails doing...:

smoke (inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

His honest eyes fire up, and sparkle, as if their depths were stirred by something bright.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I didn't say anything about his eyes, and I don't see why you need fire up when I admire his riding.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Now, if I were to hear anybody speak slightingly of you, I should fire up in a moment: but that is not at all likely, for you are just the kind of girl to be a great favourite with the men.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)