fire up

Questions about fire up

What does fire up mean?

fire up means "arouse or excite feelings and passions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for fire up?

Close synonyms include inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fire up a common word?

fire up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.