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/flˈɛrɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Flare v. i. (past & past part. flared; pres. part. flaring)

1.

To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.

2.

To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.

3.

To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy. "With ribbons pendant, flaring about her head."

4.

To be exposed to too much light. (Obs.) "Flaring in sunshine all the day."

5.

To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.

To flare up, to become suddenly heated or excited; to burst into a passion. (Colloq.)

adjective

Flaring adj.

1.

That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light. "His (the sun's) flaring beams."

2.

Opening or speading outwards.

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Etymology of 'Flaring'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flaring" Quotes from Famous Books

... loses its amusing aspect when it becomes an actual experience. Unless the mistress prefers to serve her soup at the table, a tureen is not a necessity, but if used, it must match the soup plates. It is a somewhat fluctuating fashion, out at present. Soup plates are not the great flaring affairs of yore. They either follow the old shape, much reduced, or are in the nature of a large sauce dish. The meat set of platters, plates, and vegetable dishes comes into play at all meals, tea plates can be put to a variety of uses—in ...

— The Complete Home • Various

... with its camp stove and store of supplies; and the big bateau, with its thousand feet of inch and a half manila line coiled for instant use, whose thick, flaring sides and floor of selected timber were built to override the shock and battering of a thousand pitching logs—were carried to the ...

— The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest • James B. Hendryx

... literally packed, at the time, with people from all parts of the country, and with representatives of foreign governments, as well as with military and civic organizations. The afternoon papers had forecasts of the next day's proceedings in flaring headlines. All this tended to add to my burden. I did not sleep much that night. The next morning, before day, I went carefully over what I intended to say. I also kneeled down and asked God's blessing upon my effort. ...

— Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) - Orators and Reformers • Various

... his broad, high head like a glove. His straight nose extended its tip below the nostrils and shadowed the long upper lip. He had a long chin, beautifully shaped and shaven clean as marble, a mouth like a scarlet line, and a very round, smooth throat, shown by his flaring collar. His complexion kept a cool whiteness which no exposure tanned, and this made striking the blackness of his ...

— Old Kaskaskia • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... the short November day had turned from afternoon to night, and a great change had come over the aspect of the dim and dingy court. Opaque globes turned into flaring suns; incandescent burners revealed unsuspected brackets; the place was warmed and lighted for the first time during the week. And the effect of the light and warmth was on all the faces that rose as one while the judge sidled from the bench, and the jury filed ...

— The Shadow of the Rope • E. W. Hornung

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