Fire and Sink

Fire

Fire verb - To cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force.

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

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

Sink

Sink verb - To become worse or of less value.

Fire and sink are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fire" instead a verb "Sink".

Nearby Words: sinking, sinker

Mutual synonyms

How words are described

high high fire high sink
full full fire full sink
pure pure fire pure sink
complete complete fire complete sink
Other adjectives: regular, small, powerful, actual, real, massive, large, big, huge, new, major, deadly, literal, nearby.

Common collocations

people fire people sink people
time fire time sink time
way fire way sink way
shot fire shot sink shot
Other words: ship, water, times, balls.

Both words in one sentence

  • Videogame / Jets'n'Guns It has the same heat sink as the TMiG-310 Atomic Emu, allowing it to comfortably mount and fire several BFGs at once.
  • Literature / The Name of the Wind Kilvin draws off the heat of a disastrous fire with sympathy then quickly (albeit painfully) stores it in a "heat eater", AKA heat-sink.
  • This is justified by explaining that the heat sink system allows the shooter to fire more bullets in a shorter time without waiting for the gun to cool down.
    Source: Overheating
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