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unfires

unfires is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unfire.

Meaning of unfire

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)

Questions about unfires

What is unfires the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unfires is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unfire.

Words near unfires in the dictionary

  1. unfirable
  2. unfire
  3. unfireable
  4. unfired
  5. unfireproof
  6. unfires
  7. unfiring
  8. unfirm
  9. unfirmamented
  10. unfirmly
  11. unfirmness

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