inflame

verb

1. (transitive)To set (something) on fire; to cause (something) to burn, flame, or glow; to kindle.

   “We should have made retreat / By light of the inflamed fleet.”

   “Along the perimeter road the police car approached, headlamps inflaming the afternoon sunlight.”

2. (figuratively, transitive)To intensify or kindle (a feeling, such as appetite or passion); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.

   “to inflame desire”

   “more, it seems, inflamed with lust than rage”

   “But, O inflame and fire our hearts.”

   “The long-awaited verdict could inflame tension in the Southeast Asian country and have far-reaching implications in the politically divided kingdom.”

3. (transitive)To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.

   “It will inflame you; it will make you mad.”

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   “To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.”

   “Even though no one had known about the plan in advance, the paparazzi were waiting at the door as they left the nightclub. Lalvani told me, “Whether Harry’s Bar called them or she tipped them off, I don’t know.” (I think we do.) He realizes now that she was using him to inflame the true object of her affections, Hasnat Khan. The pictures of Lalvani and Diana that appeared the next day were the whole point.”

4. (transitive)To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.

   “to inflame the eyes by overwork”

5. To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.

   “A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes.”

   “As you say, we passengers are to be taxed to pay all these fineries. I have often seen a good sideboard, or a marble chimney-piece, though not actually put in the bill, inflame a reckoning confoundedly.”

6. (intransitive)To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.

   “You meditate upon the nerves, Inflame with hate. This ancient feud Is seldom won. […]”