inflame

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To arouse to passionate feeling or action: crimes that inflamed the entire community.
2. v. To make more violent; intensify: "inflamed to madness an already savage nature” ( Robert Graves).
3. v. To cause (the skin) to redden or grow hot, as from strong emotion or stimulants.
4. v. To turn red or make glow: Great bonfires inflamed the night.
5. v. To produce inflammation in (a tissue or organ).
6. v. To set on fire; kindle.
7. v. To become excited or aroused.
8. v. To be affected by inflammation.
9. v. To catch fire.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To set on fire; kindle; cause to burn with a flame.
2. To raise to an unnatural or morbid heat; make hot or red as if from flame; excite inflammation in: as, wine inflames the blood; the skin is inflamed by an eruption.
3. To excite to a high degree; stimulate to high or excessive action or emotion; exacerbate; make violent: as, to inflame the passions; to inflame the populace.
4. To aggravate in amount; magnify; exaggerate.
5. Synonyms To fire, arouse, nettle, incense, enrage.
6. To take fire; burst into flame; glow with ardor of action or feeling.
7. To become inflamed.

Wiktionary

1. v. To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
2. v. figuratively To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to inflame desire.
3. v. To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
4. v. To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork.
5. v. To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
6. v. To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
2. v. Fig.: To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
3. v. To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
4. v. (Med.) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
5. v. obsolete To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
6. v. To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. become inflamed; get sore
2. v. catch fire
3. v. cause to start burning
4. v. arouse or excite feelings and passions
5. v. cause inflammation in