Fire and Resentment

Fire

Fire noun - A destructive burning.

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Resentment and fire are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Resentment" instead a noun "Fire".

Nearby Words: fired, fireball, firing, fireside, fireplace

Resentment noun - A lingering ill will towards a person for a real or imagined wrong.

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Fire and resentment are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fire" instead a noun "Resentment".

Nearby Words: resentful, resented, resenting

pure	pure fire	pure resentment
heavy	heavy fire	heavy resentment
small	small fire	small resentment
powerful	powerful fire	powerful resentment
Other adjectives: massive, huge, little, dark, inner, new, major, combined, eternal, resulting.

They're also fairly high priority targets, resulting in some resentment from normal soldiers who have to find cover from both direct enemy fire, and from the (still nasty) flechettes and railgun rounds ricocheting from any ACS nearby.

Source: The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort
On a grander scale, Earth's abandonment of the colonies during The Fire created lingering colonial resentment and eventually rebellion against The Empire.

Source: Video Game / Starsiege
The show for which he was preparing when the theater fire nearly claimed his life was in fact intended to restore him to fame, which surely contributed to his resentment, insanity, and murderous tendencies afterward.

Source: Literature / A Deadly Game of Magic

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