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.

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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.

Verb

(en verb)

To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

* Prior

Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?

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To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.

To molest; to harm; to injure.

to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade

* Evelyn

tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them