Inflame

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  • intransitive verb. To arouse to passionate feeling or action.
  • intransitive verb. To make more violent; intensify.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To cause (the skin) to redden or grow hot, as from strong emotion or stimulants.
  • intransitive verb. To turn red or make glow.
  • intransitive verb. To produce inflammation in (a tissue or organ).
  • intransitive verb. To set on fire; kindle.
  • intransitive verb. To become excited or aroused.
  • intransitive verb. To be affected by inflammation.
  • intransitive verb. To catch fire.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To become inflamed.
  • To set on fire; kindle; cause to burn with a flame.
  • To raise to an unnatural or morbid heat; make hot or red as if from flame; excite inflammation in: as, wine inflames the blood; the skin is inflamed by an eruption.
  • To excite to a high degree; stimulate to high or excessive action or emotion; exacerbate; make violent: as, to inflame the passions; to inflame the populace.
  • To aggravate in amount; magnify; exaggerate.
  • Synonyms To fire, arouse, nettle, incense, enrage.
  • To take fire; burst into flame; glow with ardor of action or feeling.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
  • transitive verb. To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
  • transitive verb. Fig.: To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
  • transitive verb. To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
  • transitive verb. To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
  • transitive verb. To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
  • verb. To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to inflame desire.
  • verb. To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
  • verb. To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork.
  • verb. To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
  • verb. To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. become inflamed; get sore
  • verb. catch fire
  • verb. cause to start burning
  • verb. arouse or excite feelings and passions
  • verb. cause inflammation in
  • Word Usage
    "The issues that Facebook faced the last few weeks of 2007 have seemed to resurrect - or perhaps, inflame is the better word - the issue of privacy."
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    Ame  Boehme  Graeme  Mayme  Sejm  
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    afflict  aggravate  agitate  agonize  ail  
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