inflame

Meaning

Verb

• 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.
• To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
• To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
• To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.

Origin

• From Middle English inflammen, enflamen, enflaumen, from Old French enflammer, from Latin inflammō, from in + flamma, equivalent to in- + flame.