fire up

Definition

To ignite.

Example Sentences

• "Let's fire up the grill and have a barbecue."
• "They're[renewables] not strong enough to fire up the plants that you need to make your country great. The wind doesn't blow. Those big windmills are so pathetic and so bad, so expensive to operate, and they have to be rebuilt all the time and they start to rust and rot."
• "The generator fired up shortly after the power failure began."