FIRING (UP) Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

firing (up)

verb

Definition of firing (up) next

present participle of fire (up)

as in provoking

to rouse to strong feeling or action the dynamic speaker fired up the audience as no one had previously done

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This will deepen the divide between the global North and South on issues of race and cultural difference, straining the West’s diplomatic relations with countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America while provoking broader resentment toward Western countries seen as perpetuating racial hierarchies.

Matias Spektor, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
In 2008, the United States suggested that Georgia and Ukraine might eventually join the alliance but offered no concrete path to membership, thus provoking Russia without effectively deterring it.

Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025

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