Inflame
- v. i. To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
- v. t. To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
- v. t. Fig.: To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to inflame desire.
- v. t. To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
- v. t. To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork.
- v. t. To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.