inflamed 1 of 2

variants also enflamed
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as in angry
feeling or showing anger he gets red-faced when he's inflamed enough

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inflamed

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verb

variants also enflamed
past tense of inflame

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Recent Examples of inflamed
Verb
The return to fighting has inflamed the debate in Israel over the fate of those held captive. Sam Mednick, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025 The firing of five probationary employees with the hurricane hunters in late February enflamed those concerns. Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025 Some Republicans who spoke to The Hill about that meeting said Vance unnecessarily enflamed the talks. Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 8 Mar. 2025 Barrett's esophagus occurs when the lining of the esophagus, the tube that runs from the throat to the stomach, is inflamed. Mark Gurarie, Health, 7 Mar. 2025 Why do our ankles swell when they’re sprained or does our skin turn red — or inflamed — when it’s scraped? Akshay Syal, M.d., NBC News, 4 Mar. 2025 The security of Supreme Court justices has become an increasingly worrisome issue as the court’s rulings have inflamed partisan and ideological tensions. Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2025 Beneath those patches, the tongue and other tissue in the mouth is often red, inflamed, and sometimes bleeding. Kelly Burch Published, Verywell Health, 4 Mar. 2025 Symptoms Scalp psoriasis causes scaly, inflamed skin patches on the scalp. Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 28 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inflamed
Adjective
  • That's pretty vague, but the season 2 teaser trailer highlights several of the aforementioned foes and woes, from a host of haunted dolls and a swarm of bees to a flaming, winged creature and the gnarly sight of Tyler (Hunter Doohan) in his Hyde form.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Earth upon Earth has opened and already come to the iced or flaming end of everything except sludge or scales or fur.
    Julie Swarstad Johnson, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • If an extended trade war with China leads to higher prices and shortages of key goods for Americans, an angry public could throw out some Republicans, handing control of the House and even possibly the Senate to Democrats.
    Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2025
  • Democrats were particularly angry about a last-minute Republican amendment that allowed the sale of huge chunks of public land in Nevada and Utah.
    David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2025
Verb
  • Madrid were angered by a decision in that game to award Espanyol defender Carlos Romero a yellow card for a 60th-minute challenge on Kylian Mbappe, which was not upgraded to a red card by VAR.
    Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • That meeting angered Israeli officials, and reportedly Dermer in particular.
    Alex Marquardt, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Pickett was seldomly penalized last season and didn’t give up many deep pass plays despite not having blazing recovery speed (4.59-second 40 at his pro day).
    Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • The play in question came in the sixth inning when the blazing Chandler Simpson hit a soft grounder to Paul Goldschmidt at first.
    Gary Phillips, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Asking for fairness One lingering sore spot around remote work is the disparity between different state workers.
    William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 16 May 2025
  • While the senior agents are reluctant to grant Nina’s request, the Saxton case has become a sore spot for the bureau.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • The Table Rock Fire in Pickens County, northwest South Carolina, ignited Friday and has grown to more than 1,300 acres, the commission said in a Sunday night update.
    Karina Tsui, CNN, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The fire ignited last week but grew rapidly over the weekend, fueled by low humidity and dry vegetation, officials said.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Equal to Tesfaye’s navel-gazing, Shults uses every trick in the music-video playbook to conjure a vivid, ultra-saturated but not quite realistic universe where the Weeknd is a brightly burning sun everyone revolves around.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 15 May 2025
  • Ben Johnson has a ‘burning desire’ to be a head coach.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Shinwell takes the rep aside and asks her to grab some of the antidote to the sickness that pushed Stephens into a coma, because the mad scientist must have some lying around.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 11 May 2025
  • The late 19th century was a boom time for mad inventors, scam artists, and fast-talking salesmen.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025

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