Fire
Fire verb - To give life, vigor, or spirit to.
Usage example: a school outing to the natural history museum fired his imagination, and he grew up to become an eminent paleontologist
Wake
Wake verb - Arouse or excite feelings and passions.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| full | full fire | full wake |
| complete | complete fire | complete wake |
| original | original fire | original wake |
| light | light fire | light wake |
| Other adjectives: actual, real, massive, large, big, huge, major, magical. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The episode where Xena had to walk through a wall of fire and wake up Gabrielle by kissing her.
Source: Series / Xena: Warrior Princess -
Dawn: If you touch my sister, hurt her in any way... you're going to wake up on fire.
Source: Kill It with Fire -
An eerie-sounding narrator tells that they rely on you to wake them up when there's a fire as the dollhouse sets on fire.
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