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Inflame

Inflame | Inflamed | Inflames

Inflame meaning

To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow. | To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat. | To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.

Example sentences (20)

But to curtail debate by majority vote is to inflame and re-invigorate the minority, whose only choices in response are to surrender or fight back.

In popular culture, the term “Karen” now denotes a privileged, frequently entitled white woman who is quick to complain to store managers, call the police over minor issues that do not break any laws, or generally inflame tensions in public.

People with asthma experience symptoms when the airways tighten, inflame, or fill with mucus.

Police said they believed drill rap, a gritty subgenre of hip hop, could be used to inflame Sydney’s ‘postcode wars’ and encourage violence between factions.

Speaking on the same show, Cooper said: “Suella Braverman decided to launch an unprecedented attack on the impartiality of the police, and also to deliberately inflame tensions in the run-up to remembrance weekend.

Sullivan encouraged additional steps to restore calm and de-escalate tensions, and called on all parties to refrain from unilateral actions, including settlement activity, that further inflame tensions.

The Prime Minister now faces the added challenge of keeping the parliamentary party together after Johnson's spectacular resignation as a Tory MP on Friday night threatened to inflame old tensions on the back benches.

The problems correlating with overcrowding are grave: deteriorating conditions inflame tensions, which can lead to violence, creating a dangerous environment for both detainees and staff.

This is all before the Trump forces exaggerate and inflame the context and circumstances and thus amplify their impact.

An Israeli teenager whose disappearance had led to riots by Israeli settlers in the West Bank was found dead on Saturday, the Israeli authorities said, threatening to further inflame tensions in the Israeli-occupied territory.

Before her death, the couple’s daughter Lisa Marie Presley rejected the script, writing to Coppola, saying she saw nothing of her father in it and that it would inflame tensions between her and her mother.

Congressional leaders have invited Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress this summer, which is likely to further inflame tensions over Israel's handling of the war.

Her remarks could further inflame farmers' outrage against the BJP, potentially impacting the party's poll prospects in thr agri-centric areas of the state.

However, concerns remain that any additional American strikes could further inflame a region already roiled by Israel's ongoing war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip and the ongoing attacks by Yemen's rebels on shipping in the Red Sea.

I do know it’s critical for young people to listen, to empathise with one another’s grief and pain, to choose words carefully, to de-escalate hate rather than incite or inflame.

If is the financial penalty that is more likely to inflame Trump.

It could also inflame the left, which has been protesting her administration for months.

Old dance moves meant to inflame the blood of young suitors and remind the old men of their tragic infirmity.

The Washington Post reported on Sunday that Trump talked by phone on Thursday with the Russian president, telling him not to inflame the war.

Trump’s lawyers asked Justice Juan Merchan to declare a mistrial, arguing such details served only to “inflame” the jury.