inflame

To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.

We should have made retreat / By light of the inflamed fleet.

Along the perimeter road the police car approached, headlamps inflaming the afternoon sunlight.

To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.

to inflame desire

more, it seems, inflamed with lust than rage

To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.

It will inflame you; it will make you mad.

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To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.

to inflame the eyes by overwork

To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes.

As you say, we passengers are to be taxed to pay all these fineries. I have often seen a good sideboard, or a marble chimney-piece, though not actually put in the bill, inflame a reckoning confoundedly.