Words that rhyme with maguire

n 1: the event of something burning (often destructive); "they lost everything in the fire" 2: the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire" [syn: fire, firing] 3: the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries" [syn: fire, flame, flaming] 4: a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning; "they sat by the fire and talked" 5: once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles) 6: feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor" [syn: ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidness] 7: fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking; "put the kettle on the fire"; "barbecue over an open fire" 8: a severe trial; "he went through fire and damnation" 9: intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak" [syn: fire, attack, flak, flack, blast] v 1: start firing a weapon [syn: open fire, fire] 2: cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet" [syn: fire, discharge] 3: bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery" 4: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant: employ, engage, hire] 5: go off or discharge; "The gun fired" [syn: fire, discharge, go off] 6: drive out or away by or as if by fire; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism" 7: call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [syn: arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke] 8: destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries" [syn: burn, fire, burn down] 9: provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace" [syn: fuel, fire]

v 1: come into the possession of something concrete or abstract; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" [syn: get, acquire] 2: take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables" [syn: assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take] 3: come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts" [syn: grow, develop, produce, get, acquire] 4: locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar 5: win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance" [syn: acquire, win, gain] [ant: lose] 6: gain knowledge or skills; "She learned dancing from her sister"; "I learned Sanskrit"; "Children acquire language at an amazing rate" [syn: learn, larn, acquire] 7: gain through experience; "I acquired a strong aversion to television"; "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position"; "develop a passion for painting" [syn: develop, acquire, evolve]

v 1: feel admiration for [syn: admire, look up to] [ant: look down on] 2: look at with admiration

adj 1: lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "houses on fire" [syn: ablaze(p), afire(p), aflame(p), aflare(p), alight(p), on fire(p)]

v 1: have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal [syn: draw a bead on, aspire, aim, shoot for]

n 1: clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion; "formal attire"; "battle dress" [syn: attire, garb, dress] v 1: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party" [syn: overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out] [ant: dress down, underdress]

n 1: strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage [syn: barbed wire, barbwire]

n 1: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips [syn: sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria] 2: a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries [syn: bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolia] 3: evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes [syn: tree heath, briar, brier, Erica arborea] 4: a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath [syn: briar, briar pipe]

n 1: tangled mass of prickly plants [syn: brier, brierpatch, brier patch] 2: a thorny stem or twig 3: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips [syn: sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria] 4: a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries [syn: bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolia] 5: evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes [syn: tree heath, briar, brier, Erica arborea]

n 1: a person who buys [syn: buyer, purchaser, emptor, vendee]

n 1: a chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony 2: a family of similar musical instrument playing together [syn: choir, consort] 3: the area occupied by singers; the part of the chancel between sanctuary and nave v 1: sing in a choir [syn: choir, chorus]

v 1: engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together; "They conspired to overthrow the government" [syn: conspire, cabal, complot, conjure, machinate] 2: act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose; "The two companies conspired to cause the value of the stock to fall" [syn: conspire, collude]

n 1: a person who weeps [syn: weeper, crier] 2: (formerly) an official who made public announcements [syn: town crier, crier] 3: a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells

n 1: the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state 2: an inclination to want things; "a man of many desires" 3: something that is desired v 1: feel or have a desire for; want strongly; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room" [syn: desire, want] 2: expect and wish; "I trust you will behave better from now on"; "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise" [syn: hope, trust, desire] 3: express a desire for

adj 1: fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency" [syn: desperate, dire] 2: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]

v 1: inquire about; "I asked about their special today"; "He had to ask directions several times" [syn: ask, inquire, enquire] 2: conduct an inquiry or investigation of; "The district attorney's office investigated reports of possible irregularities"; "inquire into the disappearance of the rich old lady" [syn: investigate, inquire, enquire] 3: have a wish or desire to know something; "He wondered who had built this beautiful church" [syn: wonder, inquire, enquire]

n 1: (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood 2: a title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name [syn: Esquire, Esq]

adj 1: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" [syn: balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky] 2: not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine" [syn: amiss(p), awry(p), haywire, wrong(p)] n 1: wire for tying up bales of hay

v 1: inquire about; "I asked about their special today"; "He had to ask directions several times" [syn: ask, inquire, enquire] 2: have a wish or desire to know something; "He wondered who had built this beautiful church" [syn: wonder, inquire, enquire] 3: conduct an inquiry or investigation of; "The district attorney's office investigated reports of possible irregularities"; "inquire into the disappearance of the rich old lady" [syn: investigate, inquire, enquire]

n 1: a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot [syn: mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slack] 2: deep soft mud in water or slush; "they waded through the slop" [syn: slop, mire] 3: a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from; "the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president"; "caught in the mire of poverty" v 1: entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past" [syn: entangle, mire] 2: cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart" [syn: mire, bog down] 3: be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand" [syn: grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down, mire] 4: soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" [syn: mire, muck, mud, muck up]

v 1: excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; "Exercise makes one sweat" [syn: sweat, sudate, perspire]

n 1: a quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets

v 1: require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" [syn: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand] [ant: eliminate, obviate, rid of] 2: consider obligatory; request and expect; "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children?"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons" [syn: ask, require, expect] 3: make someone do something [syn: command, require] 4: have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner" [syn: want, need, require]

v 1: go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position; "He retired at age 68" 2: withdraw from active participation; "He retired from chess" [syn: retire, withdraw] 3: pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb" [syn: withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back] [ant: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress] 4: withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds 5: break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library" [syn: adjourn, withdraw, retire] 6: make (someone) retire; "The director was retired after the scandal" 7: dispose of (something no longer useful or needed); "She finally retired that old coat" 8: lose interest; "he retired from life when his wife died" [syn: retire, withdraw] 9: cause to be out on a fielding play [syn: put out, retire] 10: cause to get out; "The pitcher retired three batters"; "the runner was put out at third base" [syn: retire, strike out] 11: prepare for sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn" [syn: go to bed, turn in, bed, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay, hit the sack, sack out, go to sleep, retire] [ant: arise, get up, rise, turn out, uprise]

v 1: provide with new wiring; "the university rewired the dormitories when most students brought computers and television sets"

n 1: a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county 2: British breed of large heavy draft horse [syn: shire, shire horse]

n 1: someone who skis

n 1: a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top [syn: steeple, spire]

n 1: young nobleman attendant on a knight 2: an English country landowner 3: a man who attends or escorts a woman [syn: squire, gallant] v 1: attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire

n 1: a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks [syn: Sur, Tyre] 2: hoop that covers a wheel; "automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air" [syn: tire, tyre]

n 1: ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc 2: a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance [syn: wire, conducting wire] 3: the finishing line on a racetrack 4: a message transmitted by telegraph [syn: telegram, wire] v 1: provide with electrical circuits; "wire the addition to the house" 2: send cables, wires, or telegrams [syn: cable, telegraph, wire] 3: fasten with wire; "The columns were wired to the beams for support" [ant: unwire] 4: string on a wire; "wire beads" 5: equip for use with electricity; "electrify an appliance" [syn: electrify, wire]