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disinflame

disinflame verb: to divest of flame or ardour.

Verb

disinflame (third-person singular simple present disinflames, present participle disinflaming, simple past and past participle disinflamed)

  1. To divest of flame or ardour.
    • O Lycians , why are your hot spirits so quickly disinflamed?[1611?], Homer, “Book XII”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new...
    • The impossibility of obtaining more will disinflame you , and we shall be, then, a beautiful and honest exception of folks liking without loving each other , and soon you shall feel only the sweetness of a friendship so pure, therefore so durable.1898, Mme. Hermine Oudinot Lecomte du Nouÿ, Love in friendship: (a nameless sentiment), page 70
  2. To reduce inflammation (in).
    • In many instances simple manipulation, a steroid injection to disinflame the affected area, or some other maneuver is suficient for most soft-tissue injuries.1991, Thomas A. Dorman, Thomas H. Ravin, Diagnosis and Injection Techniques in Orthopedic Medicine, page 37
    • Treatment then may be needed to disinflame the scar, or to get rid of the chaotically formed scar, by deep cross-fiber massage or manipulative rupture ( Ombregt et al ibid) .2005, Alon Marcus, Foundations for Integrative Musculoskeletal Medicine, page 553

Forms of disinflame

third-person singular presentdisinflames
present participledisinflaming
past participledisinflamed
pastdisinflamed

Origin of disinflame

From dis- + inflame.

Questions about disinflame

What does disinflame mean?
Disinflame means to divest of flame or ardour.
What part of speech is disinflame?
Disinflame is a verb.
What is the past tense of disinflame?
The past tense of disinflame is disinflamed.

Words near disinflame in the dictionary

  1. disinfested
  2. disinfesting
  3. disinfestor
  4. disinfestors
  5. disinfests
  6. disinflame
  7. disinflamed
  8. disinflames
  9. disinflaming
  10. disinflate
  11. disinflated

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