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firestart

firestart verb: to start a fire.

Verb

firestart (third-person singular simple present firestarts, present participle firestarting, simple past and past participle firestarted)

  1. (informal, intransitive, rare) To start a fire.

Forms of firestart

third-person singular presentfirestarts
present participlefirestarting
past participlefirestarted
pastfirestarted

Origin of firestart

Back-formation from firestarting and firestarter.

Questions about firestart

What does firestart mean?
Firestart means to start a fire.
What part of speech is firestart?
Firestart is a verb.
What is the past tense of firestart?
The past tense of firestart is firestarted.

Words near firestart in the dictionary

  1. firesome
  2. firespace
  3. firespout
  4. firespouts
  5. firest
  6. firestart
  7. firestarter
  8. firestarters
  9. firestarting
  10. firesteel
  11. firesteels

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