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in⋅flame

  [in-fleym] verb, -flamed, -flam⋅ing.
Use inflame in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
2. to arouse to a high degree of passion or feeling: His harangue inflamed the rabble.
3. to incite or rouse, as to violence: His words inflamed the angry mob to riot.
4. (of an emotion, as rage) to cause to redden or grow heated: Uncontrollable rage inflamed his face.
5. to cause inflammation in: Her eyes were inflamed with crying.
6. to raise (the blood, bodily tissue, etc.) to a morbid or feverish heat.
7. to set aflame, ablaze, or afire; set on fire.
8. to redden with or as with flames: The setting sun inflames the sky.
–verb (used without object)
9. to burst into flame; take fire.
10. to be kindled, as passion.
11. to become hot with passion, as the heart.
12. to become excessively affected with inflammation.
Also, enflame.

Origin:
1300–50; in- 2 + flame; r. ME enflammen < MF enflammer < L inflammāre to kindle

Related forms:
in⋅flam⋅ed⋅ness  [in-fley-mid-nis] , noun
in⋅flam⋅er, noun
in⋅flam⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1–3. See incite. 7. See kindle.

Antonyms:
2. cool, soothe.
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in·flame   (ĭn-flām')   
v.   in·flamed, in·flam·ing, in·flames

v.   tr.

  1. To arouse to passionate feeling or action: crimes that inflamed the entire community.

  2. To make more violent; intensify: "inflamed to madness an already savage nature" (Robert Graves).

    1. To cause (the skin) to redden or grow hot, as from strong emotion or stimulants.

    2. To turn red or make glow: Great bonfires inflamed the night.

  4. To produce inflammation in (a tissue or organ).

  5. To set on fire; kindle.

v.   intr.

  1. To become excited or aroused.

  2. To be affected by inflammation.

  3. To catch fire.


[Middle English enflaumen, from Old French enflammer, from Latin īnflammāre : in-, intensive pref.; see in-2 + flammāre, to set on fire (from flamma, flame; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots).]
in·flam'er n.
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Word Origin & History

inflame 
1340, "to set on fire with passion," fig. use of L. inflammare "to set on fire, kindle," from in- "in" + flammare "to flame," from flamma "flame" (see flame). Literal sense of "to cause to burn" first recorded in Eng. 1382. Inflammable "able to be set alight" is from 1605. Inflammatory "tending to rouse passions or anger" is from 1711. Inflammation "redness or swelling in a body part" is from 1533.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: in·flame
Pronunciation: in-'flAm
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: in·flamed; in·flam·ing
transitivesenses
: to cause inflammation in (bodily tissue) <inflame the sinuses> inflame intransitive senses
: to become affected with inflammation
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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