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

  • 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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