Difference between Inflame and Heat

What is the difference between Inflame and Heat?

Inflame as a verb is to set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow. while Heat as a verb is to cause an increase in temperature of an object or space; to cause something to become hot; often with "up".

Inflame

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow. To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to inflame desire. To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage. To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork. To exaggerate; to enlarge upon. To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.

Heat

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause an increase in temperature of an object or space; to cause something to become hot; often with "up".to arouse, to excite (sexually)

Part of speech: noun

Definition: thermal energyThe condition or quality of being hot.An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.An undesirable amount of attention.The police.One or more firearms.A fastball.A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final raceOne cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work furtherA hot spell.

Example sentence: I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

We hope you now know whether to use Inflame or Heat in your sentence.

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