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inflaming

/in-fleym/US // ɪnˈfleɪm //UK // (ɪnˈfleɪm) //

煽动性,煽动性的,膨胀的,膨胀

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    in·flamed, in·flam·ing.

    • : to kindle or excite.
    • : to arouse to a high degree of passion or feeling: His harangue inflamed the rabble.
    • : to incite or rouse, as to violence: His words inflamed the angry mob to riot.
    • : to cause to redden or grow heated: Uncontrollable rage inflamed his face.
    • : to cause inflammation in: Her eyes were inflamed with crying.
    • : to raise to a morbid or feverish heat.
    • : to set aflame, ablaze, or afire; set on fire.
    • : to redden with or as with flames: The setting sun inflames the sky.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    in·flamed, in·flam·ing.

    • : to burst into flame; take fire.
    • : to be kindled, as passion.
    • : to become hot with passion, as the heart.
    • : to become excessively affected with inflammation.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbanger, aggravate
Forms: inflamed
Antonyms

Examples

  • The coronavirus crisis has not only inflamed long-simmering inequities, economists say, it has resulted in the most unequal holiday season in decades.

  • Faulconer and police officials have said they wanted to prevent the unsanitary conditions that once inflamed the hepatitis A outbreak and threatened both homeless San Diegans and the rest of the community.

  • We decided we weren’t going to listen anymore to the shouting cynics, to the foreign bots in a warehouse overseas paid to inflame our hatred of one another.

  • The air where I was visiting reached over 350 on the Air Quality Index, a level deemed hazardous, inflaming my asthma.

  • Despite this, they have been met with national guardsman armed with rubber bullets and egged on by a president seemingly determined to inflame the situation.

  • But given their anti-government rhetoric, the Oath Keepers' presence could inflame tensions further.

  • Ferguson, Mo., had returned to a state of wary unease but early morning looting is likely to inflame things.

  • They simultaneously over-simplify and inflame a conflict that is already poorly understood.

  • Fewer issues inflame political passions in my home state of California than affirmative action.

  • Did the media and politicians inflame the situation for their own purposes?

  • None of these liquids should be taken hot, but lukewarm; when hot they inflame the stomach, and produce indigestion.

  • When a reciprocal love shall inflame my veins, then my lips will grow purple, and my kisses will be of fire!

  • Their beauty, grace, and bewitching manner inflame the heart and imagination of all that set their eyes on them.

  • In these they found good wines, which served to inflame their blood; and then their shout was, 'Hutchinson!

  • This served to inflame them exceedingly, every man considering it as if it had been a plot against himself in particular.