1.
2.
[syn: ablaze(p), inflamed, reddened]
3. adorned with tongues of flame;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Inflame \In*flame"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inflamed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Inflaming.] [OE. enflamen, OF. enflamer, F.
enflammer, L. inflammare, inflammatum; pref. in- in +
flammare to flame, fr. flamma flame. See Flame.]
1. To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or
glow.
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We should have made retreat
By light of the inflamed fleet. --Chapman.
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2. Fig.: To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to
excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to
inflame desire.
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Though more, it seems,
Inflamed with lust than rage. --Milton.
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But, O inflame and fire our hearts. --Dryden.
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3. To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate;
to incense; to enrage.
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It will inflame you; it will make you mad. --Shak.
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4. (Med.) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce
morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame
the eyes by overwork.
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5. To exaggerate; to enlarge upon. [Obs.]
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A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy
inflames his crimes. --Addison.
Syn: To provoke; fire; kindle; irritate; exasperate; incense;
enrage; anger; excite; arouse.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Inflamed \In*flamed"\, p. a.
1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked;
exasperated.
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2. (Her.) Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues
of flame.
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3. (Med.) Having an inflammation in; -- of tissues; as, an
inflamed appendix.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
decorated \decorated\ adj.
having decorations. [Narrower terms: beaded, beady,
bejeweled, bejewelled, bespangled, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled,
sequined, spangled, spangly; bedaubed; bespectacled,
monocled, spectacled; braided; brocaded, embossed,
raised; buttony; carbuncled; champleve, cloisonne,
enameled; crested, plumed having a decorative plume);
crested, top-knotted, topknotted, tufted; crested;
embellished, ornamented, ornate; embroidered; encircled,
ringed, wreathed; fancied up, gussied, gussied up, tricked
out; feathery, feathered, plumy; frilled, frilly,
ruffled; fringed; gilt-edged; inflamed; inlaid;
inwrought; laced; mosaic, tessellated; paneled,
wainscoted; studded; tapestried; tasseled, tasselled;
tufted; clinquant, tinseled, tinselly; tricked-out]
Also See: clothed, fancy. Antonym: unadorned.
Syn: adorned.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
inflamed
adj 1: resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and
reddened; "eyes inflamed with crying"
2: lighted with red light as if with flames; "streets ablaze
with lighted Christmas trees"; "the inflamed clouds at
sunset"; "reddened faces around the campfire" [syn:
ablaze(p), inflamed, reddened]
3: adorned with tongues of flame
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
170 Moby Thesaurus words for "inflamed":
Titian, Titian-red, ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, agog,
algetic, alight, angry, aquiver, ardent, aroused, atingle,
atwitter, blazing, bricky, burning, bursting, candent, candescent,
cardinal, carmine, carnation, carnelian, carried away, cerise,
chafed, chafing, cherry, cherry-colored, cherry-red, comburent,
conflagrant, crimson, damask, delirious, ebullient, effervescent,
excited, exhilarated, fanatic, febrile, ferruginous, festering,
fevered, feverish, feverous, fiery, fire-red, fired, flagrant,
flame-colored, flame-red, flaming, flaring, flickering, flushed,
fuming, galled, glowing, gules, guttering, hard-core, heated,
hectic, high, hopped up, hot, hotheaded, hyperpyretic,
hyperthermic, ignescent, ignited, impassioned, in a blaze,
in a fever, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, incarmined,
infected, infrared, iron-red, irritated, keyed up, kindled,
lake-colored, laky, lateritious, lathered up, live, living,
lobster-red, lurid, madcap, manic, maroon, moved, on fire,
passionate, port-wine, puce, pyretic, rankling, raw,
ready to burst, red, red-dyed, red-hot, red-looking, reddened,
reddish, reddish-amber, reddish-brown, reeking, roused, rubicund,
rubiginous, rubric, rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red,
ruddied, ruddy, rufescent, rufous, rust, rust-red, rusty, scarlet,
scintillant, scintillating, scorching, sensitive, septic, smarting,
smoking, smoldering, sore, sparking, stammel, steamed up,
stimulated, stirred, stirred up, swollen, tender, thrilled,
tile-red, tingling, tingly, totally committed, turned-on,
unextinguished, unquenched, vermilion, vinaceous, warm, whipped up,
white-hot, wine, wine-colored, wine-red, worked up, wrought up,
yeasty, zealous