Word Meanings - INCENSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn. Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense Thy glorious heap of funeral. Chapman. 2. To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.

Additional info about word: INCENSE

1. To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn. Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense Thy glorious heap of funeral. Chapman. 2. To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden. The people are incensed him. Shak. Syn. -- To enrage; exasperate; provoke; anger; irritate; heat; fire; instigate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INCENSE)

• Adulation
• Flattery
• compliment
• sycophancy
• courtship
• incense
• praise
• blandishment
• fawning
• cringing
• Anger Enrage
• vex
• kindle
• fret
• ruffle
• chafe
• infuriate
• exasperate
• provoke
• irritate
• wound
• inflame
• imbitter
• Enrage
• Provoke
• incite
• madden
• excite
• aggravate
• embitter
• Inflame
• Fire
• rouse
• fan
• Irritate
• Imbitter
• auger
• enrage
• Tease
• annoy
• worry

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INCENSE)

• Blame
• censure
• discommend
• reprove

Related words: (words related to INCENSE)

• TEASER
  A jager gull. (more info) 1. One who teases or vexes.
• AUGER
  nave of a wheel + gar spear, and therefore meaning properly and 1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• FAWN
  A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. Shak.
• CRINGLE
  An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate.
• FAWNINGLY
  In a fawning manner.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• INFLAMED
  Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
• RUFFLEMENT
  The act of ruffling.
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• BLAME
  1. An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure. Let me bear the blame forever. Gen. xiiii. 9. 2. That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin.
• CHAFER
  1. One who chafes. 2. A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons. Baker.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• PRAISE
  1. Commendation for worth; approval expressed; honor rendered because of excellence or worth; laudation; approbation. There are men who always confound the praise of goodness with the practice. Rambler. Note: Praise may be expressed by
• IMBITTERMENT
  The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.
• INCENSEMENT
  Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement. Shak.
• BLAMER
  One who blames. Wyclif.
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• MISKINDLE
  To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
• SELF-KINDLED
  Kindled of itself, or without extraneous aid or power. Dryden.
• WANGER
  A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• SAUGER
  An American fresh-water food fish ; -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• TRUFFLE
  Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle and the English truffle are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm , the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• GRANGER
  1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange.