Fire
Fire verb - To cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force.
Mock
Mock verb - To copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- When Kelly befriends her fellow fire-survivor Alison, who is seriously crushing on her, her friends mock her mercilessly.
Source: Gay Aesop -
The most iconic scene in which it appears being where Colonel Shaw fires it into the air to test Private Jupiter's skills under (mock) fire.
Source: Cool Guns / Revolvers - She is then seen in a mock nativity tableau, sitting around a fire with other survivors on Christmas Day.
Source: Away in a Manger
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Mock or Fire. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/fire/mock.
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