Verb: fire up
- Arouse or excite feelings and passions
"The refugees' fate fired up compassion around the world";
- inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat
- 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