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# inflame

«inflame» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make people angrier or more excited** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (inflame, inflames, inflamed, inflaming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To inflame feelings means to make people angrier or more excited. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflame/#m1)

2) (medicine) When a body part is inflamed, it becomes red, swollen, hot and painful, often from infection or injury. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflame/#m2)

3) (old) To inflame can mean to set on fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflame/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and health, inflammation is the body's response to injury or germs: a cut that is red and swollen is inflamed. In news, a rude comment can inflame a situation and make an argument worse. In stories, a speech that inflames the crowd starts a riot. Phrases: inflame tensions, inflamed throat.

### examples

- His rude words inflamed the argument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflame/#x1)
- The splinter made my finger inflamed and sore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflame/#x2)
- Her throat was inflamed with tonsillitis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflame/#x3)
- The news inflamed the angry crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflame/#x4)
- Scratching the bite will only inflame it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflame/#x5)
- The referee's decision inflamed the fans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflame/#x6)

### note

Regular verb. Noun: inflammation. Trap: «inflammable» means easily set on fire, the same as «flammable», not the opposite.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «inflame» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflame/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.