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fire away

fire away verb: to begin shooting at an enemy.

Verb

fire away (third-person singular simple present fires away, present participle firing away, simple past and past participle fired away)

  1. (intransitive) To begin shooting at an enemy.
  2. (figuratively, intransitive) To begin to talk or present information quickly.

Forms of fire away

third-person singular presentfires away
present participlefiring away
past participlefired away
pastfired away

Questions about fire away

What does fire away mean?
Fire away means to begin shooting at an enemy.
What part of speech is fire away?
Fire away is a verb.
What is the past tense of fire away?
The past tense of fire away is fired away.

Words near fire away in the dictionary

  1. fire arm
  2. fire arms
  3. fire arrow
  4. fire arrows
  5. fire at will
  6. fire away
  7. fire ax
  8. fire axe
  9. fire axes
  10. fire balloon
  11. fire balloons

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