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inflame🔊

To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.

📑 Synonyms: ignite kindle
💬 Quotations
Along the perimeter road the police car approached, headlamps inflaming the afternoon sunlight.

(figuratively) To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.

📑 Synonyms: arouse excite kindle provoke
💬 Quotations
more, it seems, inflamed with lust than rage

To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.

To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.

To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.

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

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