INFLA'ME, verb transitive [Latin inflammo; in and flamma, flame.] 1. To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn; in a literal sense. But more generally, 2. To excite or increase, as passion or appetite; to enkindle into violent action; as, to inflame love, lust or thirst; to inflame desire or anger. 3. To exaggerate; to aggravate in description. A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes. [Unusual.] 4. To heat; to excite excessive action in the blood; as to inflame the blood or body; to inflame with wine. 5. To provoke; to irritate; to anger. 6. To increase; to exasperate; as, to inflame the enmity of parties, or the spirit of sedition. 7. To increase; to augment; as, to inflame a presumption. INFLA'ME, verb intransitive To grow hot, angry and painful.
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