fireproof

[fahyuh r-proof]

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adjective

resistant to destruction by fire.

totally or almost totally unburnable.

verb (used with object)

to make fireproof.

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Origin of fireproof

First recorded in 1630–40; fire + -proof

Related formsnon·fire·proof, adjectivequa·si-fire·proof, adjective

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In 2008 he starred in Fireproof, a critically derided movie about a firefighter trying to save his marriage from divorce.
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A Fireproof Your Marriage study kit and other products are also selling briskly.
The Red Hot Christian Blockbuster|Daniel Radosh|October 21, 2008|DAILY BEAST
In the perfect world of Fireproof, good Christians do not have bad marriages, any more than they drink, gamble or swear.
The Red Hot Christian Blockbuster|Daniel Radosh|October 21, 2008|DAILY BEAST
The success of Fireproof has little to do with its artistic merits, and everything to do with religious message.
The Red Hot Christian Blockbuster|Daniel Radosh|October 21, 2008|DAILY BEAST

In that last category, you might hear a youth pastor ask his charges, “Are you fireproof?”
The Red Hot Christian Blockbuster|Daniel Radosh|October 21, 2008|DAILY BEAST
Stones should not be put in home-made cookers which are not insulated with asbestos or other fireproof material.
Mechanical Devices in the Home|Edith Louise Allen
The Will remained in its fireproof box at my office, through more years than I like to reckon up.
The Moonstone|Wilkie Collins
New tenement houses, four stories or more in height, are required to be fireproof throughout.
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The dignified apartment house to which I clung, is a skeleton only—needless to say it was supposed to be fireproof!
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Generators must stand in separate buildings, which, in towns, must be fireproof.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899|Various

British Dictionary definitions for fireproof

fireproof

adjective

capable of resisting damage by fire

verb

(tr) to make resistant to fire

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Word Origin and History for fireproof

fireproof

adj.

1630s, from fire (n.) + proof. As a verb, from 1867. Related: Fireproofed; fireproofing.

fireproof

adjective

verb (used with object)

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