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

1. transitive/intransitive verb. To bring forth young.
2. transitive 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.
3. transitive 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.
4. intransitive verb. To take fire; to begin to burn with flame; to start as a flame.
5. intransitive verb. Fig.: To begin to be excited; to grow warm or animated; to be roused or exasperated.
6. verb. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

   "arouse pity"

   "raise a smile"

   Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, provoke, raise

7. verb. cause to start burning

   "The setting sun kindled the sky with oranges and reds"

   Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, inflame

8. verb. catch fire

   "The dried grass of the prairie kindled, spreading the flames for miles"

   Synonyms: inflame

Synonyms

arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, provoke, raise, conflagrate, inflame

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in kindle:

delink, kilned, linked

Common word forms

kindled, kindler, kindles, kindling

Words from these letters

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