Synonyms of the word

inflame

• v. To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
• v. (figuratively) To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural…
• v. To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
• v. To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
• v. To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
• v. To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.

aggravate

• v. To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to…
• v. To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate.
• v. To exasperate; to provoke, to irritate.

arouse

• v. To stimulate feelings.
• v. To sexually stimulate.
• v. To wake from sleep or stupor.

conflagrate

• v. (intransitive) To catch fire.
• v. (transitive) To set fire to something.

decline

• n. Downward movement, fall.
• n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
• n. A weakening.
• n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
• v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
• v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
• v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
• v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
• v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
• v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
• v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
• v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

elicit

• v. To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or…
• v. To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.
• v. To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason; deduce; construe.
• adj. (obsolete) Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

enkindle

• v. To kindle; to arouse or evoke.

evoke

• v. To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.

exacerbate

• v. (transitive) To make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.); aggravate.

exasperate

• v. To frustrate, vex, provoke, or annoy; to make angry.
• adj. (obsolete) Exasperated; embittered.

fire

• n. (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon…
• n. (countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained…
• n. (countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
• n. (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered a one of…
• n. (countable, Britain) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
• n. (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
• n. (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun.
• n. Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
• n. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
• n. Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
• n. (countable) A button (on a joypad, joystick or similar device) usually used to make a video game character…
• v. (transitive) To set (something) on fire.
• v. (transitive) To heat without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
• v. (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
• v. (transitive) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct…
• v. (transitive) To shoot (a device that launches a projectile or a pulse or stream of something).
• v. (intransitive) To shoot a gun, a cannon or a similar weapon.
• v. (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
• v. (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
• v. (intransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
• v. To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
• v. To animate; to give life or spirit to.
• v. To feed or serve the fire of.
• v. To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
• v. (farriery) To cauterize.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
• adj. (slang) Amazing.
• interj. A cry of distress indicating that something is on fire.
• interj. A signal to shoot.

heat

• n. (uncountable) Thermal energy.
• n. (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
• n. (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
• n. (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
• n. (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
• n. (uncountable, slang) The police.
• n. (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
• n. (countable, baseball) A fastball.
• n. (uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore…
• n. (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.
• n. (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to…
• n. (countable) A hot spell.
• n. (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
• n. (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
• v. To cause an increase in temperature of an object or space; to cause something to become hot (often with…
• v. To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
• v. To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
• v. To arouse, to excite (sexually).

ignite

• v. (transitive) to set fire to (something), to light (something).
• v. (transitive) to spark off (something), to trigger.
• v. (intransitive) to commence burning.
• v. (chemistry, transitive) To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; often said of incombustible…

kindle

• v. (intransitive, of a rabbit or hare) To bring forth young; to give birth.
• n. (rare, collective) A group of kittens.
• v. (transitive) To start (a fire) or light (a torch, a match, coals, etc.).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To arouse or inspire (a passion, etc).
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To begin to grow or take hold.

light

• n. (physics, uncountable) Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation…
• n. A source of illumination.
• n. Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
• n. (in the plural, now rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
• n. A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
• n. (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those…
• n. A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
• n. A flame or something used to create fire.
• n. A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
• n. A window, or space for a window in architecture.
• n. The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
• n. (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
• n. Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
• n. The power of perception by vision.
• n. The brightness of the eye or eyes.
• n. A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler…
• v. (transitive) To start (a fire).
• v. (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning; to kindle.
• v. (transitive) To illuminate.
• v. (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
• v. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
• adj. Having light.
• adj. Pale in colour.
• adj. (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
• adj. Of low weight; not heavy.
• adj. Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
• adj. Gentle; having little force or momentum.
• adj. Easy to endure or perform.
• adj. Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
• adj. Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
• adj. (rail transport, of a locomotive, usually with "run") travelling with no carriages, wagons attached.
• adj. (obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
• adj. Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
• adj. Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
• adj. (dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
• adj. Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
• adj. Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
• adj. Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished.
• adj. Easily interrupted by stimulation.
• adv. Carrying little.
• n. (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
• v. (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter.
• v. To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
• v. To find by chance.
• v. To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice.
• v. (archaic) To alight; to land or come down.

provoke

• v. (transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
• v. (transitive) To bring about a reaction.
• v. (obsolete) To appeal.

raise

• v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
• v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
• v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
• v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
• v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
• v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
• n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
• n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
• n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
• n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
• n. A cairn or pile of stones.

wake

• v. (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
• v. (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive…
• v. To lay out a body prior to burial in order to allow family and friends to pay their last respects.
• v. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
• v. To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
• v. (obsolete) To be alert; to keep watch.
• v. (obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
• n. (obsolete, poetic) The act of waking, or state of being awake.
• n. The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
• n. A period after a person's death before the body is buried, in some cultures accompanied by a party.
• n. (historical, Church of England) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication…
• n. The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
• n. The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
• n. (figuratively) The area behind something, typically a rapidly moving object.
• n. A number of vultures assembled together.

worsen

• v. (transitive) To make worse; to impair.
• v. (intransitive) To become worse; to get worse.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get the better of; to worst.