inflame

1. (transitive) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.Examples: "We should have made retreat / By light of the inflamed fleet."; "Along the perimeter road the police car approached, headlamps inflaming the afternoon sunlight."Synonyms: ignite, kindle, alight, conflagrate, fire, fire up, ignite, inflametransitive

2. (transitive, figuratively) To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.Examples: "to inflame desire"; "more, it seems, inflamed with lust than rage"; "But, O inflame and fire our hearts."Synonyms: arouse, excite, kindle, provoke, animate, awaken, electrify, enflamefigurativelytransitive

3. (transitive) To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.Examples: "It will inflame you; it will make you mad."; "To VVrangle the Devil, out of the Country, vvill be truly a Nevv Experiment! Alas, vve are not Avvare of the Devil, if vve do not think, that he aims at Enflaming us one againſt another; & ſhall vve ſuffer our ſelves to be Devil-Ridden? or, by any Vnadviſableneſs, contribute unto the VVidening of our Breaches?"; "To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling."Synonyms: anger, enrage, exasperate, incense, irritate, affront, aggravate, angertransitive

4. (transitive) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.Examples: "to inflame the eyes by overwork"transitive

5. (intransitive) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.Examples: "You meditate upon the nerves, Inflame with hate. This ancient feud Is seldom won. […]"intransitive