inflammate

present singular third person inflammates · participle present inflammating · participle past inflammated · past inflammated

1. ambitransitivenonstandardchiefly non-native speakers' EnglishTo inflame.

   I believe to remember, that the application of cigarette ashes to sugar lumps makes it possible to inflammate them easily.

   2002 April 13, Marco Manfredini, “Sugar Lumps”, in rec.puzzles (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2026

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   I take back my request about learning about Shi'ite matters because I started reading a few articles from soc.culture.iranian and see that-very much like-soc.culture.turkish - it is full of a lot of hostility between people. So, a request of my nature-I'm afraid-may only inflammate the situation.

   1992 December 19, Michael Uskudarli, “Second thoughts..”, in soc.culture.iranian (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2026

   "Stupid" would only inflammate both the end receiver and the unsuspecting bypasser, like me. I really don't think that it deserves its place in English vocabulary.

   1993 October 14, Edmund Gin, “Pulling it together (was:Korean names)”, in soc.culture.korean (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2026

   If you/me^([sic]) are asthmatic and you/me do not conduct so called breathing exersizes then some little creatures hanging in the air settle in your lungs and start a fire to inflammate your air ways if they achieve this fire this may trigger an attack on you - an asthma attack.

   1997 February 12, Hakki Kocabas, “Frustrated parent of 3 year old”, in alt.support.asthma (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2026

   Swellings are partly pockets of blood, like bruises are. If you treat them badly, they could inflammate and then you're fscked.

   2004 April 1, Peter de Vroomen, “spring is back, bones get wrecked”, in alt.skate-board (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2026