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KINDLE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

Example:

evoke sympathy

Synonyms:

arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "kindle" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "kindle"):

strike a chord; touch a chord (evoke a reaction, response, or emotion)

ask for; invite (increase the likelihood of)

draw (elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.)

rekindle (arouse again)

infatuate (arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way)

prick (to cause a sharp emotional pain)

fire up; heat; ignite; inflame; stir up; wake (arouse or excite feelings and passions)

excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)

excite (arouse or elicit a feeling)

anger (make angry)

discomfit; discompose; disconcert; untune; upset (cause to lose one's composure)

shame (cause to be ashamed)

bruise; hurt; injure; offend; spite; wound (hurt the feelings of)

overcome; overpower; overtake; overwhelm; sweep over; whelm (overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli)

interest (excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to start burning

Example:

The setting sun kindled the sky with oranges and reds

Synonyms:

conflagrate; enkindle; inflame; kindle

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Hypernyms (to "kindle" 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 "kindle"):

rekindle (kindle anew, as of a fire)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Catch fire

Example:

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

Synonyms:

inflame; kindle

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Hypernyms (to "kindle" is one way to...):

flare up (ignite quickly and suddenly, especially after having died down)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

kindling (the act of setting something on fire)

kindling (material for starting a fire)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The Turk, amazed and delighted, endeavoured to kindle the zeal of his deliverer by promises of reward and wealth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then I remembered that of my original character, one part remained to me: I could write my own hand; and once I had conceived that kindling spark, the way that I must follow became lighted up from end to end.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Yet the misery, for which years of happiness were to offer no compensation, received soon afterwards material relief, from observing how much the beauty of her sister re-kindled the admiration of her former lover.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Meg's mild eyes kindled with anger as she pulled a crumpled note from her pocket and threw it at Jo, saying reproachfully, You wrote it, and that bad boy helped you.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“You say truly, brother,” cried the prince, his eyes kindling at the thought.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not a moment could be lost: the very sheets were kindling, I rushed to his basin and ewer; fortunately, one was wide and the other deep, and both were filled with water.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She strove bravely to hide it from me, but while I was kindling another fire I knew she was stifling her sobs in the blankets under the sail-tent.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was all rocky: however I got many birds’ eggs; and, striking fire, I kindled some heath and dry sea-weed, by which I roasted my eggs.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He wanted to animate her curiosity again as to how and where he could have heard her formerly praised; wanted very much to be gratified by more solicitation; but the charm was broken: he found that the heat and animation of a public room was necessary to kindle his modest cousin's vanity; he found, at least, that it was not to be done now, by any of those attempts which he could hazard among the too-commanding claims of the others.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)