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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.
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(of an emotion, as rage) to cause to redden or grow heated: Uncontrollable rage inflamed his face.
5.
EXPANDto cause inflammation in: Her eyes were inflamed with crying.
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.
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inflame
mid-14c., "to set on fire with passion," figurative 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 English late 14c.
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