inflaming
Making tempers flare
Inflaming is the present participle of inflame, carrying its senses of arousing strong emotion or causing physical inflammation.
Something inflaming can stir up passion, anger, or desire: inflaming rhetoric, inflaming tensions between the factions.
It also describes what causes tissue to become red, swollen, and painful: an inflaming infection.
Intense, violent anger
- furyIntense violent anger
- wrathFierce, punishing anger
- enragingCausing intense indignation
- infuriatingCausing extreme anger
incensing · provoking · antagonizing · aggravating · exacerbating · ire · resentment · indignation
Insulting to provoke
- goadingInciting through persistent pressure
- baitingDeliberately trying to provoke
- challengingHard to accomplish
- antagonizingDeliberately causing hostility
insulting · affronting · escalating · confrontation · friction · discord · contention · dispute
Abnormal tissue enlargement
- rednessCrimson-hued state
- irritationMild anger or inflammation
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- flare-upSudden recurrence of symptoms
aggravating · worsening · tissue · joint · wound · burn · arthritis · tendinitis
Disturbed, restless state
- instigationAct of provoking action
- fomentingActively stirring up discord
- stirringArousing strong emotion
- rousingExciting strong feeling
kindling · sparking · igniting · galvanizing · triggering · spurring · energizing · rallying
rage
Intense, violent anger
infuriating · incensing · provoking · antagonizing · aggravating · exacerbating · ire · resentment · indignation · hostility
taunting
Insulting to provoke
- goadingInciting through persistent pressure
- baitingDeliberately trying to provoke
- challengingHard to accomplish
antagonizing · insulting · affronting · escalating · confrontation · friction · discord · contention · dispute · hostility
swelling
Abnormal tissue enlargement
- rednessCrimson-hued state
- irritationMild anger or inflammation
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
flare-up · aggravating · worsening · tissue · joint · wound · burn · arthritis · tendinitis · dermatitis
agitation
Disturbed, restless state
- instigationAct of provoking action
- fomentingActively stirring up discord
- stirringArousing strong emotion
rousing · kindling · sparking · igniting · galvanizing · triggering · spurring · energizing · rallying · whipping up
desire
Intense wanting
exciting · kindling · stoking · fervor · yearning · longing · sensuality · eroticism · heat · chemistry
- incitementinciting, instigating, provoking, incitement, instigation
- persuadingpersuading, convincing, urging, coaxing, influencing
- thermal processesheating, burning, cooling, boiling, melting
inflamingcalming
Inducing a settled state
soothing · pacifying · placating · tranquilizing · mollifying
inflamingextinguishing
Causing to stop burning
quenching · dousing · smothering · putting out · dampening
inflamingdefusing
Neutralizing an explosive device
de-escalating · dampening · cooling · calming · reconciling
flame, inflame, inflamed, flammable, inflammation, inflammable, inflammatory, conflagration, inflames