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- verb Present participle of
enflame .
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Examples
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Security forces have turned out in force, but appear to be showing restraint, apparently to avoid further enflaming tensions.
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Security forces have turned out in force, but appear to be showing restraint, apparently to avoid further enflaming tensions.
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Events in Libya may end up further enflaming such feelings.
Eric Margolis: After Bombing Libya, What Now? Eric Margolis 2011
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China told America to stay out, that it's only enflaming matters.
Peter Winter: The Interwoven Era: The US, China and its New Aircraft Carrier Peter Winter 2011
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Security forces have turned out in force, but appear to be showing restraint, apparently to avoid further enflaming tensions.
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Comments like those you made are part of what is enflaming these nutwings in the first place.
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Once again the ADL is enflaming inter-community tensions rather than calming them.
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin: ADL Betrays Mission to Fight Bigotry, Discredits Itself Yet Again 2010
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Once again the ADL is enflaming inter-community tensions rather than calming them.
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin: ADL Betrays Mission to Fight Bigotry, Discredits Itself Yet Again 2010
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And that is pure bullshit ... from a black writer who either fails at comprehension or is intentionally enflaming a race war.
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The Democrats are often mistaken, sometimes silly and always naïve, but the Republican Party is evil; lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride - all seven of the deadly sins are its underlying principles, encouraging and enflaming them in its followers, corrupting their character to accept any and all offense against the conscience.
Note To News Orgs: McCain And Palin Are Largely Responsible For Unhinged Tone At Their Rallies 2009
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