Definition of Inflame

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Inflame

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

Fig.: To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to inflame desire.

To provoke 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; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork.

To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.

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

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Inflame Quotations

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.
Samuel Alexander

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
Jeanette Winterson

There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.
Frank B. Kellogg

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Robert M. Hutchins

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Robert M. Hutchins

Inflame Translations

inflame in French is enflammons, enflamment, enflammez
inflame in German is entflammen, entflamme
inflame in Latin is inflammo, accendo

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