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Verb: fire up
  1. Arouse or excite feelings and passions
    "The refugees' fate fired up compassion around the world";
    - inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat
     
  2. Begin to smoke
    "He fired up a cigarette after dinner";
    - light up, light

Derived forms: fires up, firing up, fired up

Type of: arouse, elicit, enkindle [literary], evoke, ignite, kindle, light, provoke, raise