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ENKINDLE

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 I. (verb) 

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they enkindle  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it enkindles  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past simple: enkindled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past participle: enkindled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

-ing form: enkindling  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Sense 1

Meaning:

Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)play

Example:

evoke sympathy

Synonyms:

arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "enkindle" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enkindle"):

strike a chord; touch a chord (evoke a reaction, response, or emotion)

ask for; invite (increase the likelihood of)

draw (elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.)

rekindle (arouse again)

infatuate (arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way)

prick (to cause a sharp emotional pain)

fire up; heat; ignite; inflame; stir up; wake (arouse or excite feelings and passions)

excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)

excite (arouse or elicit a feeling)

anger (make angry)

discomfit; discompose; disconcert; untune; upset (cause to lose one's composure)

shame (cause to be ashamed)

bruise; hurt; injure; offend; spite; wound (hurt the feelings of)

overcome; overpower; overtake; overwhelm; sweep over; whelm (overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli)

interest (excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to start burningplay

Example:

The setting sun kindled the sky with oranges and reds

Synonyms:

conflagrate; enkindle; inflame; kindle

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Hypernyms (to "enkindle" is one way to...):

ignite; light (cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enkindle"):

rekindle (kindle anew, as of a fire)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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