We were fifty kilometers from the front but the adjutant worried about the fire in my kitchen.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— the phenomenon of combustion manifested in light, flame, and heat
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Macmillan
— flames and heat from something that is burning in an uncontrolled way
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Other Word Forms
fired
fires
firing
Usage
2 uses of ‘fire’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
6 uses of ‘fire’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
4 uses of ‘fire’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9 uses of ‘fire’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle