0 present participle of inflame
1 to cause or increase very strong feelings such as anger or excitement:
I come to the third risk, that of inflaming the opinion, both of those prosecuted and of their friends.
Surely, by building it up into a great crisis we are only inflaming world opinion.
One of the dilemmas we have to solve is how we discharge that responsibility without inflaming the situation in the docks.
Will he therefore reconsider giving his endorsement to proposals which may be very dangerous in inflaming opinion in these territories?
We must avoid inflaming those demonstrations so that internecine war breaks out.
Does she also agree that at this difficult time everyone should do their best to avoid inflaming tensions?
All of us must avoid inflaming the debate by raising issues which could be interpreted as threatening in many national capitals.
Are we not inflaming the patriotism and steeling the determination of those who are already favourable to our cause by such a statement?