different between inflame vs rankle

English

Etymology

From Middle English inflammen, enflamen, enflaumen, from Old French enflammer (“to inflame”), from Latin inflamm? (“to kindle, set on fire”, verb), from in (“in, on”) + flamma (“flame”), equivalent to in- +? flame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?fle?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m

Verb

inflame (third-person singular simple present inflames, present participle inflaming, simple past and past participle inflamed)

1. (transitive) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.

   to inflame desire

   • 1690, John Dryden, Creator Spirit! by whose aid

     But, O inflame and fire our hearts.

   • 2017 August 25, "Arrest threat as Yingluck Shinawatra misses verdict", in aljazeera.com, Al Jazeera:

     The long-awaited verdict could inflame tension in the Southeast Asian country and have far-reaching implications in the politically divided kingdom.

3. (transitive) To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
4. (transitive) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.

   to inflame the eyes by overwork

5. To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.

   • A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes.

   • 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

     As you say, we passengers are to be taxed to pay all these fineries. I have often seen a good sideboard, or a marble chimney-piece, though not actually put in the bill, inflame a reckoning confoundedly.

6. (intransitive) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.

Synonyms

• provoke
• fire
• kindle
• irritate
• exasperate
• incense
• enrage
• anger
• excite
• arouse

Related terms

• inflammable
• inflammatory
• inflammation

Translations

Further reading

• inflame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• inflame in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• feminal

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ami

Verb

inflame

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of inflamar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of inflamar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of inflamar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of inflamar

Spanish

Verb

inflame

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of inflamar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of inflamar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of inflamar.

English

Etymology

From Middle English ranklen, ranclen, from Old French rancler, räoncler, draoncler (“to ulcerate, to form a boil”), from Old French draoncle (“a boil”), from Latin dracunculus (“little serpent”), diminutive of Latin drac? (“serpent, dragon”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??æ?.k?l/
• Rhymes: -æ?k?l

Noun

rankle (plural rankles)

1. A festering, embittering object or condition — either mental, or a physical sore or ulcer (rare).
   • 1795, James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury

     To this the Prince appeared to acquiesce; but I saw it did not please, and left a rankle in his mind.

Verb

rankle (third-person singular simple present rankles, present participle rankling, simple past and past participle rankled)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To cause irritation or deep bitterness.
   • 1890 — Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, chapter IX

     The close proximity of the two countries, the relative positions of their ports, made the naval situation particularly strong; and the alliance which was dictated by sound policy, by family ties, and by just fear of England's sea power, was further assured to France by recent and still existing injuries that must continue to rankle with Spain. Gibraltar, Minorca, and Florida were still in the hands of England; no Spaniard could be easy till this reproach was wiped out.

   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XX, [2]

     I stood trembling with agony for the spear was rankling in the wound.
2. (intransitive) To fester.

   a splinter rankles in the flesh

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto X

     But yet the cause and root of all his ill,
     Inward corruption and infected sin,
     Not purg'd nor heald, behind remained still,
     And festring sore did rankle yet within […]

   • 1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert

     a malady that burns and rankles inward

   • 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord

     This would have left a rankling wound in the hearts of the people.

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, chapter XIV

     You are beside him, sleeping and waking. You search his thoughts. You burrow and rankle in his heart!

   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXVI:

     Now blotches rankling, coloured gay and grim, / Now patches where some leanness of the soil's / Broke into moss or substances like boils;

Synonyms

• (to cause irritation): embitter, irritate
• (to fester): fester

Translations

References

Anagrams

• KERNAL, Karlen, lanker