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disinflame (third-person singular simple present disinflames, present participle disinflaming, simple past and past participle disinflamed)

1. To divest of flame or ardour.
   • [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:

     O Lycians , why are your hot spirits so quickly disinflamed?

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • 1898, Mme. Hermine Oudinot Lecomte du Nouÿ, Love in friendship: (a nameless sentiment), page 70:

     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.

   • 1999, Rosemary O'Leary, Managing for the Environment, page 125:

     Consequently, depersonalizing and disinflaming the situation are prudent tactics: maintain a calm demeanor, look confident, and remain assertive.

2. (medicine) To reduce inflammation (in).
   • 1991, Thomas A. Dorman, ‎Thomas H. Ravin, Diagnosis and Injection Techniques in Orthopedic Medicine, page 37:

     In many instances simple manipulation, a steroid injection to disinflame the affected area, or some other maneuver is suficient for most soft-tissue injuries.

   • 2005, Alon Marcus, Foundations for Integrative Musculoskeletal Medicine, page 553:

     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) .

   • 2022, Alba González Jácome, Traditional Mexican Agriculture:

     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.