Usually means: Ignites, provokes, or intensifies emotions.
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  1. inflames: Merriam-Webster
  2. inflames: Collins English Dictionary
  3. inflames: Vocabulary.com
  4. Inflames: Wordnik
  5. inflames: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. inflames: Wiktionary
  7. inflames: Dictionary.com
  8. inflames: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. inflames: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. inflames: Wordnik

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  1. inflames: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inflames: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  1. inflames: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (inflame)

verb:  (transitive) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
verb:  (transitive) To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
verb:  (transitive) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
verb:  To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
verb:  (intransitive) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
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