Burn
Fire up
Fire up verb - To rouse to strong feeling or action.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- In "Wild Horses", when told that his deactivated ship is caught in Earth's gravitational pull and will burn up in the atmosphere in about five minutes, his only reaction is to fire up a cigarette and tell Jet where he kept the booze that he wants Jet to inherit.
Source: Face Death with Dignity
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