The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word INFLAME
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result INFLAME
- Provoke current lover
- Get angry if invaded by northern poor
- Provoke trendy lover
- Enrage trendy partner
- Madden home lover
- Popular female abridged translation for Kindle
- Provoke fashionable celebrity about launch opening
- Slander with Liberal on board will anger
- Popular fellow — before feeble anger
- File man messed up in anger
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What does INFLAME mean?
INFLAME verb- To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
- To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
- To provoke (a person) 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.
- To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
- To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.