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verb

Inflame v. t. (past & past part. inflamed; pres. part. inflaming)

1.

To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow. "We should have made retreat By light of the inflamed fleet."

2.

Fig.: To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to inflame desire. "Though more, it seems, Inflamed with lust than rage." "But, O inflame and fire our hearts."

3.

To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage. "It will inflame you; it will make you mad."

4.

(Med.) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork.

5.

To exaggerate; to enlarge upon. (Obs.) "A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes."

Synonyms: To provoke; fire; kindle; irritate; exasperate; incense; enrage; anger; excite; arouse.

Inflame v. i. To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.

adjective

Inflamed adj.

1.

Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.

2.

(Her.) Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame.

3.

(Med.) Having an inflammation in; of tissues; as, an inflamed appendix.

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Etymology of 'Inflamed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... calling herself a free and loyal Republican without spot or blame, and declaring that the cold and selfish cruelty of Target had inflamed her heroism and roused her sensibility, asked permission to assist M, de Malesherbes in defending the King. The Assembly passed to the order of the day on this request.—BERTRAND DE MOLLEVILLE, "Annals," edit. 1802, vol, viii., ...

— Memoirs Of The Court Of Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France, Complete • Madame Campan

... broke out between believers and skeptics in the scholarly societies and scientific journals. The "monster question" inflamed all minds. During this memorable campaign, journalists making a profession of science battled with those making a profession of wit, spilling waves of ink and some of them even two or three drops of blood, since they went from sea serpents to ...

— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne

... tea-kettle groom!" and at night some mischievous boy chalked on the black door of the stable a large white tea-kettle, and next morning a drunken, idle fellow, with a clay pipe in his mouth, and a dirty pair of corduroy trousers, no coat, but a shirt very open at the chest, showing inflamed skin, the effect of drink, inspected that work of art with blinking eyes and vacillating toes, and said, "This comes of a chap doing too much. A few more like you, and work would be scarce. A fine thing for gentlefolks to make one man fill two places! ...

— A Simpleton • Charles Reade

... stood silent spectators of the whole scene, the latter in astonishment to meet such manners in such society, and the former under feelings it would have been difficult to describe; for in the face of the Dowager which was inflamed partly from passion and more from high living, he recognised the remains of his Lady Juliana, now ...

— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper

... interview that about this period took place between my father and Mrs. Bundle. It was one morning just after the Eton matter had been settled, that my nurse presented herself in my father's library, her face fatter and redder than usual from being swollen and inflamed by weeping. ...

— A Flat Iron for a Farthing - or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son • Juliana Horatia Ewing

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