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Enkindle

verb
(past & past part. enkindled; pres. part. enkindling)
1.
Cause to start burning.  Synonyms: conflagrate, inflame, kindle.
2.
Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses).  Synonyms: arouse, elicit, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise.  "Raise a smile" , "Evoke sympathy"






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"Enkindle" Quotes from Famous Books



... putting the dissecting-knife deep into the pulseless heart of another; cutting the fragments of a human body into shreds and tatters over one dissecting-slab, and loading down another with splintered bones and mangled hands and limbs, is not exactly the sort of occupation to enkindle the highest enthusiasm for "life," in any of its more manifold phases in nature. Too many lifeless notions get crammed into the head—to say nothing of baffled endeavor in the pursuit—to admit of the more conclusive and ...
— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright

... Days and weeks may elapse, but the antipathy will declare itself at last. It would be easier to lock up the mountain torrent after the breath of the tornado has torn away its rocky seals, than to stifle in the heart that hates, because of its love, the fierce fury which these united passions enkindle within it. ...
— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms



Words linked to "Enkindle" :   create, discompose, bruise, injure, stir, invite, strike a chord, offend, raise, untune, conflagrate, upset, anger, ask for, stir up, excite, stimulate, arouse, light, make, spite, fire up, shame, interest, rekindle, whelm, overtake, provoke, disconcert, infatuate, shake, wake, overcome, elicit, overwhelm, sweep over, shake up, overpower, heat, touch a chord, ignite, prick, discomfit, wound, draw, hurt



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