# fires

Pronunciation: US say "FYRZ" /ˈfaɪ̯ɚz/; UK say "FY-uhz" /ˈfaɪ̯ə(ɹ)z/

## Noun

1. Plural of fire. — plural of fire
   - Simple: Plural of fire. Use this when you mean more than one fire.
   - _Crews monitored the spreading fires from a watchtower above the valley._
   - _Lightning sparked a dozen fires across the forest in a single afternoon._

## Verb

2. Third-person singular simple present of fire. — third-person singular simple present indicative of fire
   - Simple: Third-person singular present of fire. Use it with he, she, or it.
   - _The factory fires its furnaces before dawn to meet the morning quota._
   - _Whenever profits fall, the company fires staff without much warning._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/fires (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).