ENKINDLE
Dictionary entry overview: What does enkindle mean?
• ENKINDLE (verb)
The verb ENKINDLE has 2 senses:
1. cause to start burning
2. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
Familiarity information: ENKINDLE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ENKINDLE (verb)
Meaning:
Cause to start burning
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Synonyms:
conflagrate; enkindle; kindle; inflame
Context example:
The setting sun kindled the sky with oranges and reds
Hypernyms (to "enkindle" is one way to...):
ignite; light (cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enkindle"):
rekindle (kindle anew, as of a fire)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
arouse; provoke; evoke; elicit; enkindle; kindle; fire; raise
Context examples:
arouse pity / raise a smile / evoke sympathy
Hypernyms (to "enkindle" is one way to...):
create; make (make or cause to be or to become)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enkindle"):
strike a chord; touch a chord (evoke a reaction, response, or emotion)
interest (excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of)
overcome; overpower; overtake; overwhelm; sweep over; whelm (overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli)
bruise; hurt; injure; offend; spite; wound (hurt the feelings of)
shame (cause to be ashamed)
discomfit; discompose; disconcert; untune; upset (cause to lose one's composure)
anger (make angry)
excite (arouse or elicit a feeling)
excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)
fire up; heat; ignite; inflame; stir up; wake (arouse or excite feelings and passions)
prick (to cause a sharp emotional pain)
infatuate (arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way)
rekindle (arouse again)
draw (elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.)
ask for; invite (increase the likelihood of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
