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inflammage

/ˌɪnfləˈmeɪd͡ʒ/

inflammage verb: to age or accelerate in age-like symptoms due to the effects of inflammation.

Verb

inflammage (third-person singular simple present inflammages, present participle inflammaging, simple past and past participle inflammaged)

  1. (intransitive) To age or accelerate in age-like symptoms due to the effects of inflammation.
    • Apparently, we are genetically programmed to age, and it appears even to inflammage.2016, Dr. Jennifer Stagg, Unzip Your Genes

Forms of inflammage

third-person singular presentinflammages
present participleinflammaging
past participleinflammaged
pastinflammaged

Origin of inflammage

Back-formation from inflammaging, equivalent to a blend of inflammation + age.

Questions about inflammage

What does inflammage mean?
Inflammage means to age or accelerate in age-like symptoms due to the effects of inflammation.
What part of speech is inflammage?
Inflammage is a verb.
How do you pronounce inflammage?
Inflammage is pronounced /ˌɪnfləˈmeɪd͡ʒ/.
What is the past tense of inflammage?
The past tense of inflammage is inflammaged.

Words near inflammage in the dictionary

  1. inflammable air
  2. inflammable cinnabar
  3. inflammableness
  4. inflammables
  5. inflammably
  6. inflammage
  7. inflammaged
  8. inflammageing
  9. inflammagen
  10. inflammagens
  11. inflammages

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