inflame
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English inflammen, enflamen, enflaumen, from Old French enflammer (“to inflame”), from Latin inflammō (“to kindle, set on fire”, verb), from in (“in, on”) + flamma (“flame”), equivalent to in- + flame.
Base: flame
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: inflames
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inflaming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: inflamed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: inflamed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: enflame
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To set (something) on fire; to cause (something) to burn, flame, or glow; to kindle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We should have made retreat / By light of the inflamed fleet.
Along the perimeter road the police car approached, headlamps inflaming the afternoon sunlight.
gloss: To intensify or kindle (a feeling, such as appetite or passion); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: to inflame desire
more, it seems, inflamed with lust than rage
But, O inflame and fire our hearts.
The long-awaited verdict could inflame tension in the Southeast Asian country and have far-reaching implications in the politically divided kingdom.
gloss: To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It will inflame you; it will make you mad.
To VVrangle the Devil, out of the Country, vvill be truly a Nevv Experiment! Alas, vve are not Avvare of the Devil, if vve do not think, that he aims at Enflaming us one againſt another; & ſhall vve ſuffer our ſelves to be Devil-Ridden? or, by any Vnadviſableneſs, contribute unto the VVidening of our Breaches?
To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
Even though no one had known about the plan in advance, the paparazzi were waiting at the door as they left the nightclub. Lalvani told me, “Whether Harry’s Bar called them or she tipped them off, I don’t know.” (I think we do.) He realizes now that she was using him to inflame the true object of her affections, Hasnat Khan. The pictures of Lalvani and Diana that appeared the next day were the whole point.
gloss: To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to inflame the eyes by overwork
gloss: To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
pos: verb
examples: A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes.
As you say, we passengers are to be taxed to pay all these fineries. I have often seen a good sideboard, or a marble chimney-piece, though not actually put in the bill, inflame a reckoning confoundedly.
gloss: To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: You meditate upon the nerves,
Inflame with hate. This ancient feud
Is seldom won. […]
Related words: inflammable
inflammation
inflammatory
Derived words: disinflame
inflamer
reinflame
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: kall
lang: Bulgarian
word: разпалвам
roman: razpalvam
lang: Czech
word: roznítit
lang: Finnish
word: herättää
lang: German
word: anregen