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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enflame

mid-14c.; see inflame. Related: Enflamed; enflaming.

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enflame

vb. (alternative spelling of inflame English)

Usage examples of "enflame".

As Yanagisawa experienced a sensation of the earth crumbling under his feet, outrage enflamed him.

Her eager movements against his fingertip enflamed him beyond all reason.

Lanie lay sweating in bed, her mind enflamed with the vision of Crane in the white suit with the bubble helmet.

He impresses all sorts of men, but particularly those of low class, who approve of his style of oratory and are easily enflamed by it.

On the contrary, they rather enflamed his curiosity than extinguished it.

He was recalling the enflaming curve of waist into hip and imagining quite vividly how it would feel to run his hands along that beautiful line before he crushed her against him.

The men were heavily armored and bore the enflamed white cross moline fitchy of the outlawed Order of Saint Michael on their surcoats of Michaeline blue.

On the contrary, they rather enflamed his curiosity than extinguished it.

And her touch, dear sweet God, her touch had enflamed him beyond endurance.

He imagined her naked, the play of muscles rippling her haunches, and this so enflamed him that he started to pace, unmindful of the fact that the creaking boards were signaling his presence.

Against the ramparts far to the right, giant wheels turned slowly, spread-eagle slaves going round and round, their enflamed thighs and buttocks targets for apple cores, peach stones, and even raw eggs from the crowd, while several other slaves hobbled along at a squat behind their Masters, necks tethered by two short leather chains to their widespread knees, their arms stretched out to support long poles with baskets of apples for sale dangling from the ends of them.

And they cried to him: Give us Isolda that she may belong to all of us, our illness enflames our desires, give her to your lepers.

What had happened, so Enderby was to learn later, was that a disaffected busboy or bellhop, mandatorily stoned, had filled a familysize Coca-Cola bottle with gasoline siphoned from the hotel manager's car, glugged this inflammable out in the empty thirdfloor bedroom two doors away from Enderby's own and then enflamed it.

She was very much a stranger to the growing yearnings that assailed her and more than a little cautious of the desires that enflamed her.