Dictionary Entry
kindle
kindle is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive/intransitive verb, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To bring forth young. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive/intransitive verb
To bring forth young.
- 2transitive verb
To set on fire; to cause to burn with flame; to ignite; to cause to begin burning; to start; to light; as, to kindle a match, or shavings.
- 3transitive verb
Fig.: To inflame, as the passions; to rouse; to provoke; to excite to action; to heat; to fire; to animate; to incite; as, to kindle anger or wrath; to kindle the flame of love, or love into a flame.
- 4intransitive verb
To take fire; to begin to burn with flame; to start as a flame.
- 5intransitive verb
Fig.: To begin to be excited; to grow warm or animated; to be roused or exasperated.
- 6verb
call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
"arouse pity"
"raise a smile"
- 7verb
cause to start burning
"The setting sun kindled the sky with oranges and reds"
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- 8verb
catch fire
"The dried grass of the prairie kindled, spreading the flames for miles"
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