Usually means: Subjected to criticism or attack.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word under fire:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. under fire: Merriam-Webster
  2. under fire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. under fire: Collins English Dictionary
  4. under fire: Vocabulary.com
  5. Under-fire, under-fire, under fire: Wordnik
  6. under fire: Wiktionary
  7. under fire: Dictionary.com
  8. Under Fire (Barbusse novel), Under Fire (Blackwood novel), Under Fire (Dad's Army), Under Fire (album), Under Fire (film), Under Fire (video game), Under Fire, Under Fire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. under fire: FreeDictionary.org
  10. under fire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. under fire: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. under fire: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  1. under fire: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. under fire: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Under Fire)

noun:  "Under Fire" is a missing episode in the British comedy series Dad's Army.
noun:  a 1983 American political thriller film set during the last days of the Nicaraguan Revolution that ended the Somoza regime in 1979.
noun:  Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (French: Le Feu: journal d'une escouade) by Henri Barbusse (December 1916), was one of the first novels about World War I to be published.
noun:  (stylized as Tom Clancy Under Fire, Tom Clancy: Under Fire, or Tom Clancy's Under Fire in the United Kingdom) a political thriller novel, written by Grant Blackwood and released on June 16, 2015.
noun:  Under Fire, also known as Dark Valor, is a 1957 American drama film directed by James B. Clark, written by James Landis, and starring Rex Reason, Harry Morgan, Steve Brodie, Peter Walker, Robert Levin and Jon Locke.
noun:  an album by Argentinian jazz composer and saxophonist Gato Barbieri featuring performances recorded in New York in 1971 and first released on the Flying Dutchman label in 1973.Flying Dutchman Label Discography accessed February 8, 2016Gato Barbieri discography accessed February 8, 2016
noun:  a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Clifford S. Elfelt and starring Bill Patton, Jean Arthur, and Cathleen Calhoun.

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