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Affront is a related term of inflame.


As a noun affront

is .

As a verb inflame is

.

affront

English

(wikipedia affront)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To insult intentionally, especially openly.
  • * Addison
    • How can anyone imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius?
  • To meet defiantly; to confront.
    • to affront death
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 436:
    • Avignon was beginning to settle down for the night – that long painful stretch of time which must somehow be affronted .
  • (obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.
  • * Holland
    • All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant.
  • * Shakespeare
    • That he, as 'twere by accident, may here / Affront Ophelia.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
    • Such behavior is an affront to society.
  • (obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    inflame

    English

    Verb

    (inflam)
  • To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
  • * Chapman
    • We should have made retreat / By light of the inflamed fleet.
  • (figuratively) To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
    • to inflame desire
  • * Milton
    • more, it seems, inflamed with lust than rage
  • * Dryden
    • But, O inflame and fire our hearts.
  • To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
  • * Shakespeare
    • It will inflame you; it will make you mad.
  • *, chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=To Edward
  • To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
    • to inflame the eyes by overwork
  • To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
  • * Addison
    • A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes.
  • *1773 , (Oliver Goldsmith),
  • *: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.
  • To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.

    • Synonyms

    * provoke * fire * kindle * irritate * exasperate * incense * enrage * anger * excite * arouse

    Related terms

    * inflammable * inflammatory * inflammation

    External links

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