Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To inflame; set on fire; kindle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To set on fire.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
set on fire .
Etymologies
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en- + fire
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Examples
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The memory of him firing a pictures editor by screaming at the enfire newsroom to 'tell Security to get that spastic-looking cunt out of my sight' was one that never left anyone who witnessed it (and no doubt, knowing Beadie, that was probably the idea).
Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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