Definitions for inflame

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inflame in·flame

Spelling: [in-fleym]

IPA: /ɪnˈfleɪm/

Inflame is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 227 anagrams from letters in inflame (aefilmn).

Definitions for inflame

verb (used with object)

1. to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
2. to arouse to a high degree of passion or feeling:
3. to incite or rouse, as to violence:
4. (of an emotion, as rage) to cause to redden or grow heated:
5. to cause inflammation in:
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:

verb (used without object)

1. to burst into flame; take fire.
2. to be kindled, as passion.
3. to become hot with passion, as the heart.
4. to become excessively affected with inflammation.

Origin of inflame

1300-50; in-² + flame; replacing Middle English enflammen Middle French enflammer Latin inflammāre to kindle

Examples for inflame

But given their anti-government rhetoric, the Oath Keepers' presence could inflame tensions further.

If it were poetry, "did it touch the heart, or inflame the imagination?"

Pitt then deprecated the effort to inflame the insular pride of Irishmen.

Ferguson, Mo., had returned to a state of wary unease but early morning looting is likely to inflame things.

But there were more serious things to inflame the temper of the North.

Tonight be it your care to fascinate Josephas senses and inflame her heart.

I did not write it to inflame—anybody actually reading it could see that.

We don't want to release the movie if it is going to touch a nerve or inflame anybody's sensitivities.

They employed all their skill to inflame the passions of the majority.

They simultaneously over-simplify and inflame a conflict that is already poorly understood.