0 present participle of inflame --
1 to cause or increase very strong feelings such as anger or excitement: --
When that money was bleeding out of the system, they were actively inflaming the situation.
What we shall now do depends upon the extent to which your agitators succeed in inflaming public sentiment in both nations.
It was that because of the industrial situation in this country we might be inflaming our countrymen and making the industrial condition even worse.
It is a subject which is capable of inflaming peoples against each other in many parts of the world.
This may be ascribed to the war, but it nevertheless illustrates the animosity prevailing, and every care must be taken to avoid inflaming passions further.
We didn't want to be accused of inflaming the situation.
I shall myself try to avoid argument or, at least, inflaming argument, and stick to bare realities.
Are we not inflaming the patriotism and steeling the determination of those who are already favourable to our cause by such a statement?