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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
inflame .
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Examples
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First, Palin inflames with her lies (ie comments re euthanasia), dragging her family, mother and daughter, into the fray, then tries to trick people into believing she is calm, rational, and reasonable.
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"inflames" your condition, making it worse, and you fail to comply with your doc.
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What inflames many people about the F.E.A.S.T. push for no family blame is that this leaves no room for any curiosity about the family.
Judith Brisman, Ph.D.: Children with Eating Disorders: Are Parents to Blame? Ph.D. Judith Brisman 2011
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The instinct is to punch back or push back, but in a situation like that, you really can't because that just inflames the crowd even more.
Anderson Cooper to Continue Reporting from Egypt After Attack 2011
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What inflames many people about the F.E.A.S.T. push for no family blame is that this leaves no room for any curiosity about the family.
Judith Brisman, Ph.D.: Children with Eating Disorders: Are Parents to Blame? Ph.D. Judith Brisman 2011
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The hard question, and the next great foreign-policy debate, is what if Afghanistan is no different than Iraq: a hopeless war that inflames and destabilizes the Muslim world rather than cuts to the heart of the legitimate U.S. struggle against al-Qaeda.
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If you are a sergeant in a town in Ghazni, Afghanistan and you are trying to get some local elder to cooperate about what is happening in your village, are you going to do it if this inflames?
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And then he heaves more, until the raw fire inflames his esophagus.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
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If you are a sergeant in a town in Ghazni, Afghanistan and you are trying to get some local elder to cooperate about what is happening in your village, are you going to do it if this inflames?
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This threatens tribal equilibrium and inflames the sensibilities of self-respecting alternative-leaning young people.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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