Dictionary Entry
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.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.
- 2transitive verb
To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.
- 3noun
To offer incense to. See Incense.
- 4noun
To perfume with, or as with, incense.
- 5noun
The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity.
- 6noun
The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc.
- 7noun
Also used figuratively.
- 8noun
the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned
"incense filled the room"
- 9noun
a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned
- 10verb
make furious
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- 11verb
perfume especially with a censer
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