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inflammating

inflammating is the present participle and gerund of inflammate.

Meaning of inflammate

Verb

inflammate (third-person singular simple present inflammates, present participle inflammating, simple past and past participle inflammated)

  1. (ambitransitive, nonstandard, chiefly non-native speakers' English) To inflame.
    • I take back my request about learning about Shi'ite matters because I started reading a few articles from soc.culture.iranian and see that-very much like-soc.culture.turkish - it is full of a lot of hostility between people. So, a request of my nature-I'm afraid-may only inflammate the situation.1992 December 19, Michael Uskudarli, “Second thoughts..”, in soc.culture.iranian (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2026

Questions about inflammating

What is inflammating the present participle and gerund of?
Inflammating is the present participle and gerund of inflammate.

Words near inflammating in the dictionary

  1. inflammasome
  2. inflammasomes
  3. inflammate
  4. inflammated
  5. inflammates
  6. inflammating
  7. inflammation
  8. inflammational
  9. inflammations
  10. inflammative
  11. inflammatogenic

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