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disinflame en · VERB

Etymology

From dis- + inflame.

Meanings

1. To divest of flame or ardour.
   • Consequently, depersonalizing and disinflaming the situation are prudent tactics: maintain a calm demeanor, look confident, and remain assertive. 1999, Rosemary O'Leary, Managing for the Environment, page 125:
   • The impossibility of obtaining more will disinflame you , and we shall be, then, a beautiful and honest exception of folks liking without loving each other , and soon you shall feel only the sweetness of a friendship so pure, therefore so durable. 1898, Mme. Hermine Oudinot Lecomte du Nouÿ, Love in friendship: (a nameless sentiment), page 70:
   • O Lycians , why are your hot spirits so quickly disinflamed? [1611?], Homer, “Book XII”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
2. To reduce inflammation (in).
   • Treatment then may be needed to disinflame the scar, or to get rid of the chaotically formed scar, by deep cross-fiber massage or manipulative rupture ( Ombregt et al ibid) . 2005, Alon Marcus, Foundations for Integrative Musculoskeletal Medicine, page 553:
   • Through Relations, it is possible to be aware of the uses Mayan-plants had to heal the bit of poisonous spiders, to restrict the blood of any would and heal it in a very short time, to refresh the liver, to purge and worm, to lower the faver, to calm hemorrhoids, to disinflame, to counteract evil eye, to cure headache, to heal sores, to open swelling, to grow long hair, to grow hair where there is none, to help in labor, and to employ as an antidote. 2022, Alba González Jácome, Traditional Mexican Agriculture:
   • In many instances simple manipulation, a steroid injection to disinflame the affected area, or some other maneuver is suficient for most soft-tissue injuries. 1991, Thomas A. Dorman, Thomas H. Ravin, Diagnosis and Injection Techniques in Orthopedic Medicine, page 37:

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