incense
incense is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.
- transitive verb. To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.
- noun. To offer incense to. See Incense.
- noun. To perfume with, or as with, incense.
- noun. The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity.
- noun. The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc.
- noun. Also used figuratively.
- noun. the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned
"incense filled the room"
- noun. a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned
- verb. make furious
- verb. perfume especially with a censer
Synonyms
exasperate, infuriate, cense, thurify
Common word forms
incensed, incenser, incenses, incensing, incenseless, incensement
Words from these letters
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