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Inflamed vs Flaming - What's the difference?

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Inflamed is a related term of flaming.


As adjectives the difference between inflamed and flaming

is that inflamed is resulting from or affected by inflammation while flaming is on fire with visible flames.

As verbs the difference between inflamed and flaming

is that inflamed is (inflame) while flaming is .

As a noun flaming is

sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame.

inflamed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Resulting from or affected by inflammation.
  • Appearing to be in flames; as if made of fire.

    • Derived terms

    * inflamedness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (inflame)

    • flaming

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • On fire with visible flames.
    • The flaming debris kept the firefighter well back, and the sparks threatened the neighborhood.
  • (colloquial) Extremely obvious; visibly evident. Typically of a homosexual male.
    • To call him a flaming homosexual would be an understatement, but I think he acts that way just to see people react.
  • (British, colloquial) Damned, bloody.
    • I wasted three hours in that flaming traffic jam!

    Verb

    (head)

    • See also

    * flame war * flame bait

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame
  • (internet slang) vitriolic criticism
    • You can expect a flaming if you post irrelevant spam to a newsgroup.
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