Verb

(en verb)

(transitive)  To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.

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(intransitive)  To feel or become offended, take insult.

(transitive)  To physically harm, pain.

(transitive)  To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.

(intransitive)  To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.

(transitive)  To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.

(obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical)  To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

* 1896 , Adolphus Frederick Schauffler, Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons , W. A. Wilde company, Page 161,

"If any man offend not (stumbles not, is not tripped up) in word, the same is a perfect man."

* New Testament'', Matthew 5:29 (''Sermon on the Mount ),

"If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out."

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.