Synonyms for inflame
ɪnˈfleɪmin·flame

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1. inflameverb

   Synonyms:
   arouse, excite, enrage, incense, fire, irritate, anger, exasperate, provoke, kindle

2. inflameverb

   To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.

   Synonyms:
   provoke, incense, exasperate, anger, kindle, arouse, enrage, fire, irritate, excite

3. inflameverb

   To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to inflame desire.

   Synonyms:
   exasperate, anger, provoke, enrage, excite, irritate, fire, kindle, incense, arouse

4. inflameverb

   To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.

   Synonyms:
   anger, enrage, provoke, irritate, exasperate, excite, arouse, kindle, incense, fire

5. inflameverb

   To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork.

   Synonyms:
   irritate, excite, provoke, fire, anger, enrage, arouse, kindle, incense, exasperate

6. inflameverb

   To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.

   Synonyms:
   excite, fire, anger, enrage, kindle, irritate, arouse, incense, provoke, exasperate

7. inflameverb

   To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.

   Synonyms:
   enrage, anger, irritate, incense, fire, arouse, kindle, provoke, excite, exasperate

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1. inflame

   Synonyms:
   fire, kindle, excite, rouse, fan, incense, madden, infuriate, exasperate, irritate, imbitter, auger, enrage

   Antonyms:
   quench, extinguish, allay, cool, pacify, quiet

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1. inflameverb

   cause inflammation in

   "The repetitive motion inflamed her joint"

   Synonyms:
   kindle, enkindle, wake, fire up, heat, conflagrate, ignite, stir up

2. kindle, inflameverb

   catch fire

   "The dried grass of the prairie kindled, spreading the flames for miles"

   Synonyms:
   kindle, enkindle, arouse, fire up, fire, heat, raise, evoke, wake, stir up, conflagrate, ignite, provoke, elicit

3. kindle, enkindle, conflagrate, inflameverb

   cause to start burning

   "The setting sun kindled the sky with oranges and reds"

   Synonyms:
   kindle, fire up, catch fire, provoke, ignite, wake, arouse, enkindle, stir up, evoke, erupt, elicit, conflagrate, combust, raise, take fire, fire, heat

4. inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat, fire upverb

   arouse or excite feelings and passions

   "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred"

   Synonyms:
   shake up, come alive, incite, arouse, awake, heat, commove, agitate, raise up, wake up, light up, wake, catch fire, instigate, conflagrate, combust, rouse, fire up, kindle, set off, waken, erupt, hot up, awaken, ignite, take fire, stir up, foment, vex, heat up, light, disturb, enkindle

5. inflameverb

   become inflamed; get sore

   "His throat inflamed"

   Synonyms:
   kindle, enkindle, wake, fire up, heat, conflagrate, ignite, stir up

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. inflameverb

   Synonyms:
   excite, stimulate, enkindle, incite, fire, rouse, arouse, animate, inspirit, set on, work up, stir up

2. inflameverb

   Synonyms:
   exasperate, irritate, nettle, provoke, anger, enrage, incense, madden, infuriate

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1. List of paraphrases for "inflame":

   ignite, exacerbate, aggravate

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1. Robert Hutchins:

   Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

2. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier:

   What we shouldn't do now is to inflame the situation by loud saber-rattling and shrill war cries, whoever believes that symbolic tank parades on the alliance's eastern border will bring more security is mistaken.

3. Sheikh Sabah:

   You have foiled the desperate attempt and satanic attitudes of the plotters and perpetrators of this condemned crime to inflame divisions and stir sectarian tensions and divide the unity of the Kuwaiti society, the international community should exert all their effort to avert and take legal action to dry up [ terrorism ] from its waters so countries and nations live in peace and security.

4. Todd Sechser:

   Russia has now played most of its escalatory cards, and doesn't have many tools left for resolving this crisis in its favor. The nuclear alert seems like more an act of frustration than a calculated tactical move, if the nuclear alert was intended to coerce the United States and Europe into tempering economic sanctions or abandoning Ukraine, it failed. If anything, it has served to further inflame world opinion against Russia.

5. Garry McCarthy:

   We had a couple police shootings after Ferguson and in almost every case we saw people protesting and in some cases trying to inflame the situation by putting out bad information. So it became really clear that we had to get better and quicker at putting out good information.