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 Definitions for Flaring: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Flare \Flare\ (fl[^a]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flared
(fl[^a]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Flaring.] [Cf. Norw. flara to
blaze, flame, adorn with tinsel, dial. Sw. flasa upp, and E.
flash, or flacker.]
1. To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle
flares.
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2. To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a
dazzling or painfully bright light.
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3. To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be
offensively bright or showy.
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With ribbons pendant, flaring about her head.
--Shak.
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4. To be exposed to too much light. [Obs.]
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Flaring in sunshine all the day. --Prior.
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5. To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the
perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of
a ship flare.
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To flare up, to become suddenly heated or excited; to burst
into a passion. [Colloq.] --Thackeray.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Flaring \Flar"ing\, a.
1. That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out
with a dazzling light.
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His [the sun's] flaring beams. --Milton.
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2. Opening or speading outwards.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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flaring
adj 1: having a gradual increase in width; "flared nostrils"; "a
skirt flaring from the waist" [syn: flared]
2: streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current
of air; "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her";
"flying banners"; "flags waving in the breeze" [syn: aflare,
flying, waving]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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96 Moby Thesaurus words for "flaring":
ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, blatant,
blazing, blinding, brazen, brazenfaced, burning, candent,
candescent, colorful, comburent, conflagrant, crude, deltoid,
extravagant, fan-shape, fan-shaped, fanlike, fanned, fanning,
fiery, flabelliform, flagrant, flaming, flared, flashing, flashy,
flaunting, flickering, fulgurant, fulgurating, fuming, garish,
gaudy, glaring, glowing, gorgeous, guttering, ignescent, ignited,
in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, kindled,
live, living, loud, lurid, meretricious, meteoric, obtrusive,
on fire, open, outspread, outstretched, overbright, patulous, raw,
reeking, scintillant, scintillating, screaming, sensational,
shameless, shrieking, smoking, smoldering, sparking, spectacular,
splay, splayed, splaying, spraddled, spraddling, sprangled,
sprangling, sprawling, sprawly, spread, spreading, stretched-out,
tawdry, unextinguished, unfolded, unquenched, vulgar, wide-open,
widespread
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