0 past simple and past participle of kindle --
1 to cause a fire to start burning by lighting paper, wood, etc. --
2 to cause strong feelings or ideas in someone: --
Her imagination was kindled by the exciting stories her grandmother told her.
Enthusiasm is kindled by television, school music, community centre art and drama groups, visits to stately homes and travel abroad.
No one can say that the second of these two measures was designed to conciliate the opposition which had been kindled by the first.
It must be a desire that they wish to have kindled by the regiment.
An engine ready-made—one, too, that will generate its own steam without cause or care, a self-acting engine, if once the fire be kindled.
They are far more likely to be: kindled into hostility.
It has kindled a new spirit among them.
But there is the added advantage that interest, that will inevitably be kindled, can be satisfied by pursuit of the numerous references included with each article.
Extreme materialistic views may have sparked opposition, especially among religious circles, but they also kindled a general curiosity toward modern science and thought among readers.
