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单词 kindle
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kindle
verb
uk
/ˈkɪn.dəl/us
/ˈkɪn.dəl/

kindleverb(FIRE)

[T]
tocauseafiretostartburningbylightingpaper,wood, etc.
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Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to start burning
  • catch fireA washing machine caught fire, sending the whole building up in flames.
  • catch alightHe was badly burned when his clothing caught alight.
  • kindleWe set up our tents and kindled a fire.
  • burst into flamesTwo men had a miracle escape when their helicopter burst into flames.
  • combustOily rags placed near an open flame could spontaneously combust.
  • igniteThe gasoline ignited and the house was engulfed in flames.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Starting fires
  • arsonist
  • bellows
  • combust
  • fire
  • fire starter
  • firelighter
  • ignite
  • ignition
  • kindling
  • light
  • make
  • makesomethingup
  • put
  • putsomethingout
  • reignition
  • set fire tosomething/someoneidiom
  • setsomething/someoneon fireidiom
  • strike
  • tinder
  • torch
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kindleverb(FEELING)

[Toften passive]literary
tocausestrongfeelingsorideasin someone:
激起（热情等）；使产生想法
Herimaginationwas kindled by theexcitingstorieshergrandmothertold her.她祖母给她讲述的精彩故事激发了她的想象力。
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Inspiration and inspiring
  • anti-creative
  • apostolic
  • blue-sky
  • breathe
  • breathe (new) life into sthidiom
  • creative
  • creativity
  • engage
  • enthral
  • entrance
  • grip
  • incentivize
  • inspiration
  • muse
  • Promethean
  • re-engage
  • show
  • show(someone)the wayidiom
  • stimulate
  • stimulating
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Inspiring feelings in others
(Definition ofkindlefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

kindle| American Dictionary

kindle
verb[T]
us
/ˈkɪn·dəl/
tocauseafiretostartburning:
fig.Greatliteraturekindledtheirimaginations(= made themwork).
(Definition ofkindlefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofkindle

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Interventions early in the course of kindling may reverse this course.
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Predictably, local risings were sporadic, but once the spark had been kindled, conditions were clearly ripe for revolt.
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His own interest had been kindled by a recent exchange in which he, indeed, felt "ripped off" by one of his publishers.
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The second is the way of illumination, in which the mind by contemplation is kindled to the burning of love.
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In fact, the passions kindled by the sight of difference are depicted as so offensive, frightening, and unacceptable, that they have to be repressed.
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In the architecture of our time, such hopes are only rarely kindled.
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Left politics has provided him with a more appropriate theatre for kindling more fearsome verbal fires.
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I secretly kicked my wet boots behind the bundle of kindling as she took off her heavy garments.
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Apoptosis of hippocampal neurons after amygdala kindled seizures.
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Persisting resolve amid exigent constraints kindles the unfolding of uplifting possibles.
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He is taken to his palace, when his doctor orders a fire to be hastily kindled, to warm one who is already stricken with the chill of death.
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In related fashion, scholars lament the manner in which patronage parties organized voters into politics: kindling distributive interests and ethno-cultural identities and submerging more fundamental material and ideological differences.
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Such strain could easilykindlethe kind of staff attitudes that had led to neglect of patients in some of the other large hospitals.
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Stressful life events and previous episodes in the etiology of major depression in women : an evaluation of the ' kindling ' hypothesis.
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Long-term effects of pilocarpine in rats: structural damage of the brain triggers kindling and spontaneous recurrent seizures.
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