inflame
verb (used with object)
to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
were inflaming
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past progressiveof inflame.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Throughout the country, social and economic changes associated with the Market Revolution were inflaming the evils that critics deplored.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
In Egypt we have already seen how an amicable arrangement between Lord Milner and the Egyptian nationalist leaders was facilitated by the latter's fear of the social revolutionary agitators who were inflaming the fellaheen.
From The New World of Islam by Lothrop Stoddard
