ENKINDLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enkindle mean? 

• ENKINDLE (verb)
  The verb ENKINDLE has 2 senses:

1. cause to start burning

2. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

  Familiarity information: ENKINDLE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENKINDLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they enkindle    ... he / she / it enkindles   
Past simple: enkindled   
Past participle: enkindled   
-ing form: enkindling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to start burning

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

conflagrate; enkindle; inflame; kindle

Context example:

The setting sun kindled the sky with oranges and reds

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

evoke sympathy

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

 Context examples 

The nearer I approached to your habitation, the more deeply did I feel the spirit of revenge enkindled in my heart.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)