Dictionary Entry
inflammation
inflammation is a 12-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
12 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 24 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed.
- 2noun
A morbid condition of any part of the body, consisting in congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.
- 3noun
Violent excitement; heat; passion; animosity; turbulence; as, an inflammation of the mind, of the body politic, or of parties.
- 4noun
the act of setting something on fire
- 5noun
arousal to violent emotion
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- 6noun
the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
"his face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled"
"he tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme inflammation"
- 7noun
a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat
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