inflame

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These impression met with much to inflame, and nothing to restrain them.

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  1. transitive verb To arouse to passionate feeling or action: crimes that inflamed the entire community.
  2. transitive verb To make more violent; intensify: "inflamed to madness an already savage nature” (Robert Graves).
  3. transitive verb To cause (the skin) to redden or grow hot, as from strong emotion or stimulants.

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  • This post (and others the last couple of days) are just meant to inflame, antagonize and hurt those believers that might happen to stop by. —  Greensboring® Greensboro, NC
  • I don't understand why the media still tries to play up this idea of competition between the two Davids; it does nothing but inflame, and quite frankly makes fans from both sides look bad. —  EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines
  • The hatreds that inflame, the rivalries that agitate, the controversies that confuse, the miseries that afflict, these races, nations and classes are bitter and of long standing. —  Citadel of Faith
  • She seemed nude with an elfin nudity that charmed him while it did not inflame, or if it did, only with the subtle inflammation of the mind, which can withstand such onslaughts for many years before a sudden reaction of the body shows the connection between the two. —  Secret Bread
  • He feels that he has met more than his match, so he skulks from the field, beaten for the first time by having encountered a heart which all his fiery darts failed to inflame, and dimly foreseeing yet more utter defeat The last temptation teaches us both the nature of Christ's kingdom and the means of its establishment. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII
 

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  1. Middle English enflaumen, from Old French enflammer, from Latin īnflammāre : in-, intensive pref.; see in-2 + flammāre, to set on fire (from flamma, flame; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Formerly also enflame; from Middle English *enflammen, enflawmen, from Old French enflammer, French enflammer = Provencal enflamar = Spanish inflamar = Portuguese inflammar = Italian infiammare, from Latin inflammare, set on fire, inflame, from in, in, on, + flamma, flame: see flame.
 

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