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incend

/ɪnˈsɛnd/

incend verb: to inflame; to excite.

Verb

incend (third-person singular simple present incends, present participle incending, simple past and past participle incended)

  1. (obsolete) To inflame; to excite.
    • a line incends his lustfull blood1599, W. Kinsayder or Theriomastix [pseudonyms; John Marston], The Scourge of Villanie. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts], →OCLC; republished as G[eorge] B[agshawe] Harrison, editor, The Scourge of...

incend meaning in Tamil and Bengali

incend in Tamil

நெருப்புமூட்டு

incend in Bengali

প্রজ্জ্বলিত করা, উত্তেজিত করা

Forms of incend

third-person singular presentincends
present participleincending
past participleincended
pastincended

Origin of incend

From Latin incendere, incensum (“to kindle, burn”). See incense (“to inflame”).

Questions about incend

What does incend mean?
Incend means to inflame; to excite.
What is incend in Tamil?
Incend in Tamil is நெருப்புமூட்டு. See Incend meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is incend?
Incend is a verb.
How do you pronounce incend?
Incend is pronounced /ɪnˈsɛnd/.
What is the past tense of incend?
The past tense of incend is incended.

Words near incend in the dictionary

  1. incelly
  2. incelosphere
  3. incelospheres
  4. incels
  5. incelspeak
  6. incend
  7. incended
  8. incendiaries
  9. incendiarism
  10. incendiarisms
  11. incendiarist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: incend (page history and authors); incend (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incend (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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