inflamed

Thân thiện

The doctor examined the patient's inflamed ankle.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Affected by inflammation; red, swollen, and often painful: Describes a part of the body that is hot, red, and swollen due to injury or infection.
   • Appearing as if on fire; glowing with a red or fiery color: Describes something that has a bright, intense red color, reminiscent of flames.
   • Emotionally aroused or agitated, especially with anger or passion: Describes a state of intense emotional excitement.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective (Medical/Physical):
  • The doctor examined her inflamed throat.
  • The cut became inflamed and required antibiotics.
• Adjective (Visual Appearance):
  • The sky was inflamed at sunset.
  • His inflamed cheeks betrayed his embarrassment.
• Adjective (Emotional State):
  • She gave an inflamed speech about injustice.
  • His inflamed rhetoric worried the audience.

Advanced Usage

• "to be inflamed with/by something": to be filled with a strong emotion.
  • He was inflamed with a desire for revenge.
• "inflamed passions": intense and agitated emotions.
  • The debate further inflamed the passions of the crowd.

Variants and Related Words

• Inflame (verb): To provoke or intensify strong feelings, or to cause inflammation.
  • His comments served only to inflame the situation.
• Inflammation (noun): A localized physical condition in which part of the body becomes reddened, swollen, hot, and often painful.
  • The inflammation in his knee made walking difficult.
• Inflammatory (adjective): Tending to arouse anger, hostility, or strong emotion; or relating to or causing inflammation.
  • The politician made inflammatory remarks.

Synonyms

• Swollen: Enlarged or puffed up, typically due to pressure or fluid.
• Reddened: Having become or been made red.
• Sore: Painful or aching.
• Fiery: Having the bright color of fire; or showing strong emotion.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(Note: 'Inflamed' is primarily an adjective. The related verb 'inflame' does not commonly form phrasal verbs.)

Related Idioms

• To add fuel to the fire (or flames): To make a bad situation worse; to intensify a conflict. (This idiom is conceptually related to the verb 'inflame').
  • Bringing up that old argument just added fuel to the fire.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. adorned with tongues of flame
2. lighted with red light as if with flames
   • streets ablaze with lighted Christmas trees
   • the inflamed clouds at sunset
   • reddened faces around the campfire
3. resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and reddened
   • eyes inflamed with crying

Từ đồng nghĩa

• ablaze
• reddened