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Meanings of firing off in English

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descàrrega
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The act of discharging a gun.

        descàrrega
        Usage of firing off in English
        1
        Christ, it could be Skullhammer, firing off accusations as a double bluff.
        Bedlam
        2
        What's all that firing off there to the left and farther on?
        The Star of Gettysburg: A Story of Southern High Tide
        3
        To cope, I put on my reporter hat and started firing off questions.
        The lost girls: three friends. four continents. one unconvention...
        4
        It showed no fear as he edged towards it, firing off several photographs.
        BBC
        5
        Around a death-bed the wits were firing off their sarcasms on its occupant.
        A History of the Four Georges, Volume II
        6
        He could only accept it by firing off both barrels of his gun.
        Stories of American Life and Adventure
        7
        Her nerves were firing off so many impulses, she couldn't tell.
        Audrey's door
        8
        People with inoperative communications equipment don't go around firing off pulse-rifles.
        The Complete Alien Omnibus
        9
        My chief tester loved this and spent ages firing off bolts.
        Wired
        10
        Still the Cossacks went on firing off their matchlocks without a moment's intermission.
        Taras Bulba, and Other Tales
        11
        Georgina, meanwhile, had been firing off telegrams like a three-decker warship firing broadsides.
        Drood: a novel
        12
        Don't let us be firing off our guns in a hurry, you know.
        Middlemarch
        13
        The Brit yanked the Derringer's trigger, firing off a wild shot.
        Storm Front
        14
        To-night our pickets were sure they heard firing off in the direction of Kanawha.
        The Citizen-Soldier / or, Memoirs of a Volunteer
        15
        Some soldiers were firing off guns and throwing bombs into the river all night.
        The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro a...
        16
        Then, when the attacks started firing off, Martin was in the thick of them.
        The Irish Times
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