Word.ws English Dictionary

played with fire

played with fire is the simple past and past participle of play with fire.

Meaning of play with fire

Verb

play with fire (third-person singular simple present plays with fire, present participle playing with fire, simple past and past participle played with fire)

  1. (idiomatic) To put oneself in a precarious situation with a high risk of getting harmed, particularly emotionally or financially.
    • I'm telling you, if you sign that paper, you're playing with fire.

Questions about played with fire

What is played with fire the simple past and past participle of?
Played with fire is the simple past and past participle of play with fire.

Words near played with fire in the dictionary

  1. played well with others
  2. played with
  3. played with a full deck
  4. played with edge-tools
  5. played with edged tools
  6. played with fire
  7. played with house money
  8. played with oneself
  9. playedst
  10. player
  11. player base

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: played with fire (page history and authors); play with fire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “played with fire.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/played_with_fire. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.