Inflame
[ɪn'fleɪm] or [ɪn'flem]
Definition
(verb.) become inflamed; get sore; 'His throat inflamed'.
(verb.) cause inflammation in; 'The repetitive motion inflamed her joint'.
(verb.) arouse or excite feelings and passions; 'The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor'; 'The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world'; 'Wake old feelings of hatred'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
(v. t.) Fig.: To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to inflame desire.
(v. t.) To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
(v. t.) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork.
(v. t.) To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
(v. i.) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Excite, stimulate, enkindle, incite, fire, rouse, arouse, animate, inspirit, set on, work up, stir up.[2]. Exasperate, irritate, nettle, provoke, anger, enrage, incense, madden, infuriate.
Editor: Rena
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fire, kindle, excite, rouse, fan, incense, madden, infuriate, exasperate,Irritate, Imbitter, auger, enrage
ANT:Quench, extinguish, allay, cool, pacify, quiet
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Definition
v.t. to cause to flame: to cause to burn: to excite: to increase: to exasperate.—v.i. to become hot painful or angry.—ns. Inflammabil′ity Inflam′mableness the quality of being inflammable.—adj. Inflam′mable that may be burned: combustible: easily kindled or excited.—adv. Inflam′mably.—n. Inflammā′tion state of being in flame: heat of a part of the body with pain redness and swelling: violent excitement: heat.—adj. Inflam′matory tending to inflame: inflaming: exciting.
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Examples
- Those substances, when combined, inflame explosively in contact with sulphuric acid. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- As atmospheric air cannot gain access to the coal in the retorts, the gases expelled do not inflame, nor can the parts that are not volatile be consumed without a supply of air. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- What those adventurers were reported to have found, however, was sufficient to inflame the avidity of all their countrymen. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Here the heart of St. Philip Neri was so inflamed with divine love as to burst his ribs. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And when they were all sneezing and inflamed, I'd mock 'em through the keyhole. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The wet wood which I had placed near the heat dried, and itself became inflamed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- A few adroit words, one or two knowing tender glances of the eyes, and his heart was inflamed again and his doubts and suspicions forgotten. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This success inflamed the wood owners and the charcoal burners and they destroyed Dudley's works. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The other eye inflamed: he lost the sight of that also. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Telegraph operators were naturally in touch with this movement, and Edison's fertile imagination was readily inflamed by the glowing idea of all these vague possibilities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Smith, trapped up in semi-military style, toured Ulster, inspecting these volunteers and inflaming local passion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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