Fire = (1) catch fire: ‘One of the engines had overheated and caught fire.’ ‘If there is a gas leak, the house could catch fire.’ (2) the event of something burning (often destructive): ‘They lost everything in fire.’ (3) a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning: ‘They sat by the fire and talked.’
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