What's the difference between enrage and inflame?

Enrage


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The euro elite insists it is representing the interests of Portuguese or Irish taxpayers who have to pick up the bill for bailing out the feckless Greeks – or will be enraged by any debt forgiveness when they have been forced to swallow similar medicine.
  • (2) Enraged that this had happened when casting had barely commenced, the director shut down the movie unilaterally (perhaps finally ...) and sued Gawker .
  • (3) The prime minister, with her acute sensitivity and loyalty to Tory-inclined social groups, believed, probably with good reason, that a giveaway would enrage homeowners who had painstakingly saved for deposits and paid off mortgages.
  • (4) The government further enraged Mubarak's opponents when it tried to cover up the killing by alleging he choked on a bag of drugs.
  • (5) The new video, posted on Wednesday night , has only further enraged tribal leaders who recently called on law enforcement officials to protect native cultural resources at the refuge and to criminally prosecute the militiamen.
  • (6) The Greece midfielder Giannis Maniatis was so enraged after a training ground spat that he booked a himself on a flight back to Athens before being persuaded not to walk out on Fernando Santos’s squad.
  • (7) The test comes less than two months after the North enraged the US and its allies by test firing a long-range ballistic missile.
  • (8) He frequently used the sounds and rhythms of dubstep – which by 2011 was nearing the peak of its explosive global rise – royally enraging the scene's purists, who were already struggling to cope with "their" sound spilling into the mainstream and picked him as scapegoat.
  • (9) Death of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor likely to enrage Pakistan Read more The US secretary of state, John Kerry, speaking in Myanmar on Sunday, said Mansoor “posed a continuing imminent threat to US personnel in Afghanistan , Afghan civilians, Afghan security forces” and members of the US and Nato coalition.
  • (10) Tony Blair's effortless ability to enrage his many critics, especially on the left, was evident again when he popped up on BBC Radio 4's Today programme to insist that MPs' rejection of military action against Syria was not directly linked to the legacy of mistrust he bequeathed over the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
  • (11) The official version that the Ayotzinapa students were executed, burned in a landfill near Cocula and their ashes thrown to the winds has enraged people still more.
  • (12) The objections are likely to further enrage the Bush administration, which responded with fury to a comment by Mr Straw on Friday that the "axis of evil" speech was more of a vote-winning tactic in forthcoming US elections than a military strategy.
  • (13) The decision to turn a distant duke into a knight downunder suggests a prime minister who is tone deaf or worse, complacent in his power to push through a personal preference indifferent to the fact that it is bound to enrage and bewilder many.” Devine said it was Credlin’s job to stop her boss making such a blunder and suggested it was time to replace her with the Australian’s own associate editor Chris Kenny.
  • (14) (In fact, Vicky got it from all directions: a cartoon for Beaverbrook's Evening Standard in the 1950s calling for the abolition of the death penalty so enraged a doctor in Harrow that he wrote to the paper lamenting the fact that Vicky and his family managed to escape from Nazi Germany 25 years earlier.)
  • (15) Videla did his best to sink into quiet obscurity, leading an austere existence marred only by occasional outbursts against him by enraged passersby who recognised him in the street.
  • (16) Whatever money is needed for it will be spent,” declared British prime minister David Cameron – Mr Austerity himself – when large parts of the UK were underwater from historic flooding in February 2014 and the public was enraged that his government was not doing more to help.
  • (17) Palestinians were enraged by footage showing the wounded Ahmed lying on the ground after the attack, as bystanders yell at him: “Die!”.
  • (18) In his interview, his father told the Guardian: “I don’t know if he had any connections to Isis.” Seddique Mateen also played down the significance of his widely reported remarks in a previous interview in which he recounted how his son had once become enraged at the sight of two men kissing.
  • (19) Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian Enraged by the revelations of Libor-rigging by some RBS traders?
  • (20) This awkward fact seems to enrage Trump, the Saudis and Isis in equal measure.

Inflame


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to inflame desire.
  • (v. t.) To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
  • (v. t.) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork.
  • (v. t.) To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
  • (v. i.) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sepsis resulted from intravenous absorption through inflamed or disrupted urothelium.
  • (2) The aim of our experiments was to investigate firstly whether during an acute inflammatory process platelets accumulate in the inflamed area and secondly whether the inflammation has an effect on the properties of the platelets.
  • (3) This system may serve as a model to explain the mechanisms by which cells accumulate in inflamed joints.
  • (4) Instead of healing the nation after a fractious referendum he inflamed the situation.
  • (5) "On the contrary, they often serve to inflame rather than mollify the feelings of those involved."
  • (6) More seriously, but no less predictably, the inflaming of sectarianism will have knock-on effects in Syria and Iraq.
  • (7) At both 24 h and 1 week, the inflamed paw showed pronounced supersensitivity to the antinociceptive action of morphine against noxious pressure.
  • (8) When given 30 min after acetic acid instillation SC-41930 prevented the rise in myeloperoxidase and dye extravasation observed in the acetic acid inflammed tissue.
  • (9) This functions is disturbed in inflamed joints by the decrease in the HA concentration and possibly by its depolymerization.
  • (10) Uptake in inflamed tissue of three cholesterol-rich liposome preparations was always significantly greater than the uptake noted in normal tissue.
  • (11) The row had been inflamed over the weekend by a series of leaks about the spiralling price of Gove's free schools and high costs of Clegg's free school meals, giving Labour ammunition to attack the government's education policy in Westminster.
  • (12) Any unilateral action by the president seemed sure to inflame gun advocates, who argue that gun sales are protected under the second amendment and who equate gun control with tyranny.
  • (13) These findings suggest that H pylori may add to the local production of paf in inflamed gastric mucosa.
  • (14) Sodium fluorescein and fluorescinated dextrans (FD) of selected molecular weights were combined and perfused into the anterior chamber of normal and inflamed eyes of cynomolgus monkeys.
  • (15) Overgrowth of cartilage by inflamed synovium was seen within 3-6 days of induction of arthritis and by day 12 the interface between these two tissues was largely indistinguishable.
  • (16) Whereas NS of allergic and inflamed noses extracted allergens very rapidly, NS of normal noses showed no extraction activity.
  • (17) Of 22 selected gingival areas, an average of 5.4 was inflamed, and 2.9 were severely inflamed.
  • (18) Tight junctions only occur in inflamed tissue between the most superficial cells usually as part of a lateral intercellular junctional complex that also contains belt desmosomes.
  • (19) While arguments will persist over the rights and wrongs of publishing, what seems certain is that the incident will inflame already tense relations between Buckingham Palace and the European media.
  • (20) The fascia was inflamed and fibrotic, and adjacent skeletal muscle often showed perifascicular inflammation.