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Inflamed   /ɪnflˈeɪmd/   Listen
Inflamed

adjective
1.
Resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and reddened.
2.
Lighted with red light as if with flames.  Synonyms: ablaze, reddened.  "The inflamed clouds at sunset" , "Reddened faces around the campfire"
3.
Adorned with tongues of flame.



Inflame

verb
(past & past part. inflamed; pres. part. inflaming)
1.
Cause inflammation in.
2.
Catch fire.  Synonym: kindle.
3.
Cause to start burning.  Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, kindle.
4.
Arouse or excite feelings and passions.  Synonyms: fire up, heat, ignite, stir up, wake.  "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world" , "Wake old feelings of hatred"
5.
Become inflamed; get sore.






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"Inflamed" Quotes from Famous Books



... which he hath ruined here! No—had not reason's light totally set, And left thee dark thou hadst an amulet In the loved image graven on thy heart Which would have saved thee from the tempter's art, And kept alive in all its bloom of breath That purity whose fading is love's death!— But lost, inflamed,—a restless zeal took place Of the mild virgin's still and feminine grace; First of the Prophets favorites, proudly first In zeal and charms, too well the Impostor nurst Her soul's delirium in whose active flame, Thus lighting up ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al

... I have returned to this town, inflamed with the same ardour, and now I suppose you will keep your promise, which made me hope to marry Celia, and thus reward ...
— Sganarelle - or The Self-Deceived Husband • Moliere

... pressure, caused by doing so, provoked the cough; but now I had, in addition, to be propped in position to get any repose whatever. The symptoms, altogether, were rather alarming, for the heart felt inflamed and ready to burst, pricking and twingeing with every breath, which was exceedingly aggravated by constant coughing, when streams of phlegm and bile were ejected. The left arm felt half-paralysed, the left nostril was choked with mucus, and on the centre of the left shoulder ...
— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke

... the Arkansas to Bent's fort, and home. This was our projected line of return—a great part of it absolutely new to geographical, botanical, and geological science—and the subject of reports in relation to lakes, rivers, deserts, and savages hardly above the condition of mere wild animals, which inflamed desire to know what this ...
— The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California • Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont

... defend and deliver them?—No such thing: but he only recites and beats into their ears his former promises to them, which oftentimes they had before: and yet the rehearsal of the same wrought so mightily in the heart of Moses, that not only was bitterness and despair removed away, but also he was inflamed with such boldness, that without fear he went in again to the presence of the king, after he had been threatened and repulsed ...
— The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2 and 3. • John Welch, Bishop Latimer and John Knox


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