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English
Etymology
From un- + fire.
Verb
unfire (third-person singular simple present unfires, present participle unfiring, simple past and past participle unfired)
- (transitive) Hypothetically, to undo the firing of (a weapon).
You can't unfire a gun.
- (transitive) To hire again (a person who was fired).
- 2004, Spider-Man 2 (film)
- J. J. Jameson: Where you been? Looked for you all morning! Why don't you pay your phone bill? Mad scientist goes berserk and we don't have pictures! Where were you? Photographing squirrels? You're fired!
- Receptionist: Chief, the planetarium party.
- J. J. Jameson: Oh, right. You're unfired. I need you to come here. What do you know about high society? Don't answer that. My society photographer got hit in the head by a polo ball. You're all I got.
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