Inflame
verb
To provoke or intensify strong feelings in someone.
His speech inflamed the crowd and sparked a riot.
Often appears as...
- inflame passions
- inflame the situation
verb
To cause physical inflammation in a body part.
The infection can inflame the ear canal, causing pain and hearing loss.
Often appears as...
- inflame a joint
- inflame the skin
verb
To provoke or intensify strong feelings in someone.
His speech inflamed the crowd and sparked a riot.
Often appears as...
- inflame passions
- inflame the situation
verb
To cause physical inflammation in a body part.
The infection can inflame the ear canal, causing pain and hearing loss.
Often appears as...
- inflame a joint
- inflame the skin
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emotionally Charged
Used to describe actions or words likely to provoke a strong emotional response.
Politicians often use rhetoric to inflame public sentiment.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotations
Mostly carries a negative sense, suggesting the arousal of negative feelings.
The column's harsh criticism served to inflame the hostility between the two groups.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity Matter
Implies an increase in the intensity of existing emotions, not the creation of new ones.
His dismissive comments only served to inflame their existing anger.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotionally Charged
Used to describe actions or words likely to provoke a strong emotional response.
Politicians often use rhetoric to inflame public sentiment.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotations
Mostly carries a negative sense, suggesting the arousal of negative feelings.
The column's harsh criticism served to inflame the hostility between the two groups.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity Matter
Implies an increase in the intensity of existing emotions, not the creation of new ones.
His dismissive comments only served to inflame their existing anger.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotionally Charged
Used to describe actions or words likely to provoke a strong emotional response.
Politicians often use rhetoric to inflame public sentiment.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotations
Mostly carries a negative sense, suggesting the arousal of negative feelings.
The column's harsh criticism served to inflame the hostility between the two groups.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity Matter
Implies an increase in the intensity of existing emotions, not the creation of new ones.
His dismissive comments only served to inflame their existing anger.
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The psychology of evil PIPE...
that can inflame the hostile imagination in some of us, that makes us perpetrators of evil, can inspire the heroic imagination in others. It's the same situation and you're on one side or the other. Most people are guilty of the evil of inaction, because your mother said, "Don't get involved. Mind your own business."
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Aaron Morris: How your...
with integrated immune cells, just the cells we need for diagnosis. Although these tissues are complex and chronically inflamed, they're also innocuous and after a few weeks, nearly imperceptible. Our engineered tissues contain information not present in the blood, and they can help bridge the gap
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It's OK to feel...
to change the situation. I mean, the part of me that's constantly looking for the better narrative hopes that the anger we feel now could almost displace some of -- I mean, the world's been an angry place for the last couple years. There's been so much anger inflamed online.
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The Bias behind Your...
"Source not clear. Probably tendons were inflamed," he said. And he prescribed a boot and some physical therapy. But the pain worsened, and it spread to my hip and my back. I sought out more medical specialists, even holistic practitioners, all with different theories,
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How aspirin was...
As its influence grew, aspirin was found to ease not just pain, but also many inflammation-related problems, like rheumatoid arthritis, pericarditis, which enflames the fluid-filled sack around the heart, and Kawasaki disease, where blood vessels become inflamed.
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Your body vs. implants -...
causing immune cells to inflame around these fragments. Tragically, the immune system’s attack can even be life-threatening. However, researchers are finding ways to trick the immune system into accepting the new devices we introduce into our bodily tissues.
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Tiny Orphan Baby Sloth...
Let's turn him over and look at his belly. So, his belly button, the umbilical cord is gone, but it's still inflamed. So, it looks like the umbilical cord came off very recently. -He's really gripping on though. -The last thing that goes is their grip.
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Safari Live - Day 325 PIPE...
resurrected itself and it may come from having to cook he move up the tree maybe you was chased by he know and he had to hoist his kill a lot faster than he was comfortable with and maybe it's just a little bit inflamed but as we said oh
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Is human evolution...
all make differences between our genes less important. Similarly, our ability to cure childhood cancers, surgically extract inflamed appendixes, and deliver babies whose mothers have life-threatening pregnancy-specific conditions,
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Barbara Natterson-Horowit...
make sure that this California sea lion's paricardium wasn't inflamed, and in this picture, I'm listening to the heart of a lion after a lifesaving, collaborative procedure with veterinarians and physicians
Video examples
The psychology of evil PIPE...
that can inflame the hostile imagination in some of us, that makes us perpetrators of evil, can inspire the heroic imagination in others. It's the same situation and you're on one side or the other. Most people are guilty of the evil of inaction, because your mother said, "Don't get involved. Mind your own business."
Video examples
Aaron Morris: How your...
with integrated immune cells, just the cells we need for diagnosis. Although these tissues are complex and chronically inflamed, they're also innocuous and after a few weeks, nearly imperceptible. Our engineered tissues contain information not present in the blood, and they can help bridge the gap
Video examples
It's OK to feel...
to change the situation. I mean, the part of me that's constantly looking for the better narrative hopes that the anger we feel now could almost displace some of -- I mean, the world's been an angry place for the last couple years. There's been so much anger inflamed online.
Video examples
The Bias behind Your...
"Source not clear. Probably tendons were inflamed," he said. And he prescribed a boot and some physical therapy. But the pain worsened, and it spread to my hip and my back. I sought out more medical specialists, even holistic practitioners, all with different theories,
Video examples
How aspirin was...
As its influence grew, aspirin was found to ease not just pain, but also many inflammation-related problems, like rheumatoid arthritis, pericarditis, which enflames the fluid-filled sack around the heart, and Kawasaki disease, where blood vessels become inflamed.
Video examples
Your body vs. implants -...
causing immune cells to inflame around these fragments. Tragically, the immune system’s attack can even be life-threatening. However, researchers are finding ways to trick the immune system into accepting the new devices we introduce into our bodily tissues.
Video examples
Tiny Orphan Baby Sloth...
Let's turn him over and look at his belly. So, his belly button, the umbilical cord is gone, but it's still inflamed. So, it looks like the umbilical cord came off very recently. -He's really gripping on though. -The last thing that goes is their grip.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 325 PIPE...
resurrected itself and it may come from having to cook he move up the tree maybe you was chased by he know and he had to hoist his kill a lot faster than he was comfortable with and maybe it's just a little bit inflamed but as we said oh
Video examples
Is human evolution...
all make differences between our genes less important. Similarly, our ability to cure childhood cancers, surgically extract inflamed appendixes, and deliver babies whose mothers have life-threatening pregnancy-specific conditions,
Video examples
Barbara Natterson-Horowit...
make sure that this California sea lion's paricardium wasn't inflamed, and in this picture, I'm listening to the heart of a lion after a lifesaving, collaborative procedure with veterinarians and physicians
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Frank B. Kellogg
American Politician
There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.
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Edward Gibbon
English Historian
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
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Brad Thor
American Novelist
My intent is not to inflame Muslims but to entertain readers of great thrillers. At the end of the day, I want people to see a good protagonist struggle against serious odds and do so with courage and honor and integrity.
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Geoff Mulgan
English Educator
Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions.
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John Darnielle
American Musician
The way the vocal folds work is that they can get inflamed and in pain, but actual tears in the folds are somewhat rare. I've never torn anything. Been too strained plenty of times.
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Jane Smiley
American Writer
The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.
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Susan Collins
American Politician
We must always remember that it is when passions are most inflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy.
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Bernadine Dohrn
American Educator
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
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Friedrich Schiller
German Dramatist
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
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Jim Morrison
American Singer
Music inflames temperament.
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Frank B. Kellogg
American Politician
There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.
Quote examples
Edward Gibbon
English Historian
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Quote examples
Brad Thor
American Novelist
My intent is not to inflame Muslims but to entertain readers of great thrillers. At the end of the day, I want people to see a good protagonist struggle against serious odds and do so with courage and honor and integrity.
Quote examples
Geoff Mulgan
English Educator
Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions.
Quote examples
John Darnielle
American Musician
The way the vocal folds work is that they can get inflamed and in pain, but actual tears in the folds are somewhat rare. I've never torn anything. Been too strained plenty of times.
Quote examples
Jane Smiley
American Writer
The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.
Quote examples
Susan Collins
American Politician
We must always remember that it is when passions are most inflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy.
Quote examples
Bernadine Dohrn
American Educator
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
Quote examples
Friedrich Schiller
German Dramatist
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
Quote examples
Jim Morrison
American Singer
Music inflames temperament.
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