inflamed

Definition

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

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.

Adjective

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

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