See inflame in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "more, it seems, inflamed with lust than rage",
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"text": "But, O inflame and fire our hearts.",
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"ref": "1692 (indicated as 1693), Cotton Mather, “Enchantments Encountred”, in The Wonders of the Invisible World. Observations as well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils. […], Boston, Mass.: […] Benjamin Harris, →OCLC:",
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"Terms with Sardinian translations",
"en:Fire"
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"2": "enm",
"3": "inflammen"
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"name": "inh"
},
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"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "enflammer",
"4": "",
"5": "to inflame"
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"expansion": "Old French enflammer (“to inflame”)",
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"5": "to kindle, set on fire",
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"etymology_text": "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.",
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"ref": "[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:",
"text": "We should have made retreat / By light of the inflamed fleet.",
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{
"ref": "1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 7:",
"text": "Along the perimeter road the police car approached, headlamps inflaming the afternoon sunlight.",
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"To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow."
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[
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"(transitive) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow."
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"text": "to inflame desire",
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"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
"text": "more, it seems, inflamed with lust than rage",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1690, John Dryden, Creator Spirit! by whose aid:",
"text": "But, O inflame and fire our hearts.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017 August 25, \"Arrest threat as Yingluck Shinawatra misses verdict\", in aljazeera.com, Al Jazeera",
"text": "The long-awaited verdict could inflame tension in the Southeast Asian country and have far-reaching implications in the politically divided kingdom."
}
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"To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat."
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"(transitive, figuratively) To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat."
],
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"word": "arouse"
},
{
"word": "excite"
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{
"word": "kindle"
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{
"word": "provoke"
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{
"word": "thrill"
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{
"word": "incite"
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"ref": "1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:",
"text": "It will inflame you; it will make you mad.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1692 (indicated as 1693), Cotton Mather, “Enchantments Encountred”, in The Wonders of the Invisible World. Observations as well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils. […], Boston, Mass.: […] Benjamin Harris, →OCLC:",
"text": "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?",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair:",
"text": "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.",
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"To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage."
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"(transitive) To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage."
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{
"word": "enrage"
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{
"word": "incense"
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"text": "to inflame the eyes by overwork"
}
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"To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of."
],
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"(transitive) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of."
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"ref": "1712 June 18 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, June 7, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 359; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume IV, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:",
"text": "A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1773, [Oliver] Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer: Or, The Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy. […], London: […] F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):",
"text": "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.",
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"To exaggerate; to enlarge upon."
],
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"ref": "1941, Theodore Roethke, “Feud”, in Open House; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1975, →ISBN, page 4:",
"text": "You meditate upon the nerves,\nInflame with hate. This ancient feud\nIs seldom won. […]",
"type": "quote"
}
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"To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed."
],
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"incense",
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"(intransitive) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed."
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zapalvam",
"sense": "to set on fire",
"word": "запалвам"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to set on fire",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "roznítit"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to set on fire",
"tags": [
"perfective"
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},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to set on fire",
"word": "ekbruligi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to set on fire",
"word": "sytyttää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to set on fire",
"word": "allumer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to set on fire",
"word": "anzünden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to set on fire",
"word": "entflammen"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to set on fire",
"word": "virittää"
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{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to set on fire",
"word": "syttää"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to set on fire",
"word": "sytyttää"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to set on fire",
"word": "adhain"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to set on fire",
"word": "incendiare"
},
{
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "to set on fire",
"tags": [
"Logudorese"
],
"word": "affoghizare"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razpalvam",
"sense": "to kindle or intensify",
"word": "разпалвам"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to kindle or intensify",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "roznítit"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to kindle or intensify",
"word": "herättää"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to kindle or intensify",
"word": "anregen"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to provoke to anger or rage",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "roznítit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to provoke to anger or rage",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "rozdmýchat"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to provoke to anger or rage",
"word": "lietsoa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to provoke to anger or rage",
"word": "aufregen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to provoke to anger or rage",
"word": "erzürnen"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to provoke to anger or rage",
"word": "whakakoikoi"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vǎzpaljavam",
"sense": "to put in a state of inflammation",
"word": "възпалявам"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to put in a state of inflammation",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zanítit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to put in a state of inflammation",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "vyvolat zánět"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to put in a state of inflammation",
"word": "inflamigi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to put in a state of inflammation",
"word": "tulehduttaa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to put in a state of inflammation",
"word": "sich entzünden"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to put in a state of inflammation",
"word": "inflamar"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "preuveličavam",
"sense": "to exaggerate",
"word": "преувеличавам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to exaggerate",
"word": "liioitella"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to exaggerate",
"word": "aufpeitschen"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful",
"word": "inflami"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful",
"word": "tulehtua"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful",
"word": "asañar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful",
"word": "inflamar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful",
"word": "aufbrausen"
}
],
"word": "inflame"
}
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