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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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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Verb[edit]
inflame (third-person singular simple present inflames, present participle inflaming, simple past and past participle inflamed)
- (transitive) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
- (Can we date this quote by Chapman?)
- We should have made retreat / By light of the inflamed fleet.
- 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 7:
- Along the perimeter road the police car approached, headlamps inflaming the afternoon sunlight.
- (Can we date this quote by Chapman?)
- (transitive, figuratively) To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
- to inflame desire
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton?)
- more, it seems, inflamed with lust than rage
- (Can we date this quote by John Dryden?)
- But, O inflame and fire our hearts.
- 2017 August 25, "Arrest threat as Yingluck Shinawatra misses verdict", in aljazeera.com, Al Jazeera:
- The long-awaited verdict could inflame tension in the Southeast Asian country and have far-reaching implications in the politically divided kingdom.
- (transitive) To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
- It will inflame you; it will make you mad.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
- (transitive) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
- to inflame the eyes by overwork
- To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
- (Can we date this quote by Addison?)
- A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes.
- 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote by Addison?)
- (intransitive) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
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Translations[edit]
to set on fire
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to provoke to anger or rage
to put in a state of inflammation
to exaggerate
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to grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful
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Further reading[edit]
- inflame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- inflame in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ami
Verb[edit]
inflame
- First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of inflamar
- Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present subjunctive of inflamar
- Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of inflamar
- Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of inflamar
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
inflame
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