inflameverb [ T ]
uk/ɪnˈfleɪm/us/ɪnˈfleɪm/to cause or increase very strong feelings such as anger or excitement:
Reducing the number of staff is certain to inflame the already angry medical profession.
Pictures of the bombed and burning city inflamed feelings/passions further.
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Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- a snowball effect idiom
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fire idiom
- balloon
- bump
- dial
- growing
- heighten
- hot up
- increase
- pile
- rack
- speed-up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
- supersize
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