KINDLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kindled mean? 

• KINDLED (adjective)
  The adjective KINDLED has 1 sense:

1. set afire

  Familiarity information: KINDLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KINDLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Set afire

Synonyms:

enkindled; ignited; kindled

Context example:

a kindled fire

Similar:

lighted; lit (set afire or burning)

 Context examples 

He has a temper, not like ours—one flash and then all over—but the white, still anger that is seldom stirred, but once kindled is hard to quench.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The visit was paid, their acquaintance re-established, their interest in each other more than re-kindled.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Flushed and kindled thus, he looked nearly as beautiful for a man as she for a woman.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For a little while, his eye kindled and his voice was firm; for a little while he was again silent.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he bent her to his will.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was all rocky: however I got many birds’ eggs; and, striking fire, I kindled some heath and dry sea-weed, by which I roasted my eggs.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His eyes kindled and a slight flush sprang into his thin cheeks.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful reinvasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer’s eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The latter part of his tale had kindled anew in me the anger that had died away while he narrated his peaceful life among the cottagers, and as he said this I could no longer suppress the rage that burned within me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Yet the misery, for which years of happiness were to offer no compensation, received soon afterwards material relief, from observing how much the beauty of her sister re-kindled the admiration of her former lover.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)