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unfire

unfire verb: hypothetically, to undo the firing of (a weapon).

Verb

unfire (third-person singular simple present unfires, present participle unfiring, simple past and past participle unfired)

  1. (transitive) Hypothetically, to undo the firing of (a weapon).
    • You can't unfire a gun.
  2. (transitive) To hire again (a person who was fired).
    • J. J. Jameson: [talking to Peter Parker] Where you been? Looked for you all morning! Why don't you pay your phone bill? Mad scientist goes berserk and we don't have pictures! […] Where were you? Photographing squirrels? You're fired!
      Receptionist: Chief, the planetarium party.
      J. J. Jameson: Oh...2004, Spider-Man 2 (film)

Synonyms of unfire

Forms of unfire

third-person singular presentunfires
present participleunfiring
past participleunfired
pastunfired

Origin of unfire

From un- + fire.

Questions about unfire

What does unfire mean?
Unfire means hypothetically, to undo the firing of (a weapon).
What part of speech is unfire?
Unfire is a verb.
What is the past tense of unfire?
The past tense of unfire is unfired.

Words near unfire in the dictionary

  1. unfinishedness
  2. unfinisht
  3. unfinite
  4. unfinned
  5. unfirable
  6. unfire
  7. unfireable
  8. unfired
  9. unfireproof
  10. unfires
  11. unfiring

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