See Also: inflame(medicine)
inflame(dictionary)
inflame(dictionary)

inflame (iou)



inflame verb. . ME.
[Old & mod. French enflammer from Latin inflammare, formed as IN-2 + flamma FLAME noun.]
I. verb trans.
Excite with strong feeling or passion; rouse to anger or animosity. ME.
W. Robertson Stimulants like wine inflame the senses. S. T. Warner A dance wanton enough to inflame a maypole. P. Howard The gruesome horror stories that had inflamed public opinion.
b. Rouse (a passion). ME.
Set on fire, kindle. Now rare. LME.
W. Falconer The fuse..inflames the powder.
b. Light up as with flame. L15.
Shelley The torches Inflame the night to the eastward.
Heat, make hot; esp. raise (the body or blood) to a feverish temperature. LME.
R. Chandler We had..lattices to admit the air, while cool; and shutters to exclude it, when inflamed.
b. Induce inflammation or painful swelling in. M17.
M. Spark Freddy had arrived with an arm swollen and inflamed from a new vaccination.
Make worse or more intense; aggravate. Formerly also, increase (a price or charge). E17.
V. Glendinning Lettie inflamed Rebecca's raw self-doubt and was never forgiven for it.
II. verb intrans.
Catch fire. Formerly also, become very hot. LME.
J. Tyndall It first smokes and then violently inflames.
Become passionately excited. M16.
Carlyle I know how soon your noble heart inflames when sympathy and humanity appeal to it.
Become heated by disease or stimulants; be affected by inflammation or painful swelling. L16.
inflameable adjective = INFLAMMABLE adjective E17-E18.
inflamer noun a person who or thing which inflames; esp. an instigator: E17.