Home › Words › F › frontfirefrontfirefrontfire means to have the intended effect.EtymologyFrom front + fire, coined as an opposite for backfire (and not usually seen without it).verbTo have the intended effect.e.g.“Talking of backfire, frontfire or whatever, John Carroll can give it both barrels, and simultaneously.” — 2002 August 18, Liam Griffin, “For the championship’s sake, it must be Tipp”, in Sunday Tribune (Dublin, Ireland):Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.antifire 57% match — Opposing or countering fire. vs frontfire →enfire 56% match — To set on fire. vs frontfire →firepower 55% match — The capacity of a weapon to deliver fire onto a target. vs frontfire →counterfire 53% match — The firing of weapons in response. vs frontfire →outgun 53% match — To defeat in terms of firepower. vs frontfire →backfiring 53% match — The occurrence of a backfire. vs frontfire →unfire 52% match — Hypothetically, to undo the firing of (a weapon). vs frontfire →effectivate 51% match — To make effective. vs frontfire →