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inflaming

[ UK /ɪnflˈe‍ɪmɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ɪnˈfɫeɪmɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. arousal to violent emotion

How To Use inflaming In A Sentence

  • They felt that inflaming the situation with a vitriolic confrontation would make them feel more at risk.
  • A spokesman for the society said the thread running through the guidelines was that solicitors should do ‘anything possible’ to avoid inflaming the situation.
  • But he warns that, because it has never been used in Great Britain before, the authorities would risk "sending out a message that we have lost control" and inflaming tensions "in a country that has never been comfortable with the idea of militarisation". BBC News - Home
  • Republican leaders have moved to scupper Obama's healthcare plans by inflaming myths and lies about the system.
  • You're saying Israeli actions are inflaming the region.
  • Union leaders said they expected the lockout and blamed the employers for inflaming already tense negotiations.
  • After I had dismissed the skin inflaming make-up and the tatty plastic jewellery, all I was left with were surly-looking dolls wearing clompy shoes and tarty skirts that cost the earth.
  • The split that is inflaming the public mood is the one between insiders and outsiders.
  • Surely the true wisdom of the great powers was to attack, not each other, but this common barrator, who, by inflaming the passions of both, by pretending to serve both, and by deserting both, had raised himself above the station to which he was born. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)
  • Critics say the mayor is a bigot who is inflaming racial tensions in his city.
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