Inflame vs Piss - What's the difference?
inflame | piss |
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
*, chapter=12
, 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.
(vulgar) Urine.
(vulgar, slang) Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.
(vulgar) To urinate.
(vulgar) To discharge as or with the urine.
As verbs the difference between inflame and piss
is that inflame is to set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow while piss is to urinate.As a noun piss is
urine.inflame
English
Verb
(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.
Synonyms
* provoke * fire * kindle * irritate * exasperate * incense * enrage * anger * excite * arouseExternal links
* * English ergative verbs ----piss
English
Noun
- 1611' ''Monster, I do smell all horse-'''piss ; at which my nose is in great indignation.'' ā Shakespeare, ''The Tempest , Act 4, Scene 1.
- 2005' ''There in a puddle of '''piss sat Princess Fatima, her dress up over her knees, vomit dripping onto her bodice'' - Richard Connelly Miller, ''Tanglefoot
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
- 1601' ''O Jove, a beastly fault! And then another fault in the semblance of a fowl; think on āt, Jove; a foul fault! When gods have hot backs, what shall poor men do? For me, I am here a Windsor stag; and the fattest, I think, iā the forest. Send me a cool rut-time, Jove, or who can blame me '''to piss my tallow? Who comes here? my doe?'' ā Shakespeare, ''The Merry Wives of Windsor , Act 5, Scene 5.