verb
- Cause inflammation in.
- usage: "The repetitive motion inflamed her joint"
- synonyms: inflame
- Catch fire.
- usage: "The dried grass of the prairie kindled, spreading the flames for miles"
- Cause to start burning.
- usage: "The setting sun kindled the sky with oranges and reds"
- synonyms: kindle, enkindle, conflagrate, inflame
- Arouse or excite feelings and passions.
- usage: "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred"
- Become inflamed; get sore.
- usage: "His throat inflamed"
- synonyms: inflame
adjective
- Resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and reddened.
- usage: "eyes inflamed with crying"
- Lighted with red light as if with flames.
- usage: "streets ablaze with lighted Christmas trees"; "the inflamed clouds at sunset"; "reddened faces around the campfire"
- Adorned with tongues of flame. .
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