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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, 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.

Verb

(ril)

to make angry

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, year=2011 , date=October 20 , author=Michael da Silva , title=Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Riled by a decision that went against him, Ziv kicked his displaced boot at the assistant referee and, after a short consultation between the officials, he was given his marching orders and the loudest cheer of the night.}}

to stir or move from a state of calm or order

Money'' ''problems'' rile ''the underpaid worker every day .

Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really rile me.

It riles me that she never closes the door after she leaves.