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inkindle

inkindle is the alternative form of enkindle.

Meaning of enkindle

Verb

enkindle (third-person singular simple present enkindles, present participle enkindling, simple past and past participle enkindled)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To kindle; to arouse or evoke.
    • That, trusted home, might yet enkindle you unto the crown, besides the Thane of Cawdor.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of inkindle

third-person singular presentinkindles
present participleinkindling
past participleinkindled
pastinkindled

Questions about inkindle

What is inkindle the alternative form of?
Inkindle is the alternative form of enkindle.

Words near inkindle in the dictionary

  1. inkhosi
  2. inkhosis
  3. inkier
  4. inkiest
  5. inkily
  6. inkindle
  7. inkindled
  8. inkindles
  9. inkindling
  10. inkiness
  11. inkinesses

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