Inflamer vs Inflames - What's the difference?
inflamer | inflames |
(usually, figuratively) Something that inflames.
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(inflame)
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To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
* Chapman
(figuratively) To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
* Milton
* Dryden
To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
* Shakespeare
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, title= To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
* Addison
*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.
As a noun inflamer
is something that inflames.As a verb inflames is
third-person singular of inflame.inflamer
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(inflam)- We should have made retreat / By light of the inflamed fleet.
- to inflame desire
- more, it seems, inflamed with lust than rage
- But, O inflame and fire our hearts.
- It will inflame you; it will make you mad.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=To Edward
- to inflame the eyes by overwork
- A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes.