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fired

adjective as in subjected to fire

adjective as in discharged

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In a recent mapping project, researchers at Arizona State University and the University of California, Los Angeles found that debris flow risk in areas that experience fires will generally increase as climate change progresses.

The number of days with extreme fire risk conditions across California could increase by more than 50% toward the end of the century under a scenario in which global emissions peak around 2050 and decline thereafter, according to one recent study.

The official death toll for the entire fire is now 35 people, and the high-speed winds that are fueling the fires are expected to continue in the following days.

Choking smoke from hundreds of fires, several of the largest ever to hit the west coast, stretched from Seattle to Mexico.

From Quartz

On the same day, Aguila Saleh, the speaker of an eastern Parliament aligned with the general, also called for a cease-fire.

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A street sweeper was caught in the crossfire as a gunman fired at the officer, fatally wounding her in the back.

One of the other cops fired three times and those who were still able to give chase did.

The cops gave chase and the gunman fired the big revolver twice more.

The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.

Knight and Farrell were both fired from the New Orleans Police Department before they gravitated to Duke.

Before we had all fired, Fanning and a dozen of his sharpest men had again loaded, and were by our side.

The men, whose poniards his sword parried, had recourse to fire-arms, and two pistols were fired at him.

The next moment a pistol was fired at their head, and a deep groan shewed it had taken too true an aim.

At once the sepoys at the Kashmir Gate fired a volley at the nearest officers, of whom three fell dead.

To-day I have stood in the main battery which has fired a shot establishing, in its way, a record in the annals of destruction.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fired, such as: burned, alight, baked, burning, enkindled, and glowing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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