"fire away" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: fires away [present, singular, third-person], firing away [participle, present], fired away [participle, past], fired away [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} fire away (third-person singular simple present fires away, present participle firing away, simple past and past participle fired away)
  1. (intransitive) To begin shooting at an enemy. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-fire_away-en-verb-YSz7Hfky Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (away) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 66 34 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (away): 77 23
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) To begin to talk or present information quickly. Tags: figuratively, intransitive
    Sense id: en-fire_away-en-verb-Gz8SY8Lx
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Coordinate_terms: fire at will, weapons free

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for fire away meaning in English (1.6kB)

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