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fire off

fire off verb: to perform (a task) rapidly, often unexpectedly.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To perform (a task) rapidly, often unexpectedly.
    • No sooner had I replied to his first question, than he fired off another one.
    • When I had read the article, I immediately fired off a letter to the editor.
    Synonyms:
    toss off
  2. (transitive) To discharge from a firearm.
    • The nervous soldier fired off a few more rounds into the darkness.

Synonyms of fire off

Forms of fire off

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

Questions about fire off

What does fire off mean?
Fire off means to perform (a task) rapidly, often unexpectedly.
What part of speech is fire off?
Fire off is a verb.
What is the past tense of fire off?
The past tense of fire off is fired off.

Words near fire off in the dictionary

  1. fire moss
  2. fire mountain
  3. fire mountains
  4. fire obsidian
  5. fire obsidians
  6. fire off
  7. fire officer
  8. fire officers
  9. fire on all cylinders
  10. fire opal
  11. fire opals

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