The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flaring \Flar"ing\, a.
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That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light.
His [the sun's] flaring beams.
--Milton. Opening or speading outwards.
Flare \Flare\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flared; p. pr. & vb. n. Flaring.] [Cf. Norw. flara to blaze, flame, adorn with tinsel, dial. Sw. flasa upp, and E. flash, or flacker.]
To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
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To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.
With ribbons pendant, flaring about her head.
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To be exposed to too much light. [Obs.]
Flaring in sunshine all the day.
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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.]
--Thackeray.
Wiktionary
n. The act of something that flares. vb. (present participle of flare English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
- Redirect Gas flare
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Usage examples of "flaring".
The nimble, twin-tailed single-seater vaulted skyward under his touch, afterburner flaring.
Like the horseman, Batu had dark eyes set wide over broad cheeks, a flat nose with flaring nostrils, and a powerful build.
She found an elegant black knit with subtle beadwork and a softly flaring skirt and slipped it on, then stepped into her high-heeled black pumps.
He was aware of a vein pulsing across his temple, the livid scar flaring from the chillingly pale blue eye, down to the right corner of his thin-lipped mouth.
Sometimes Clio thought of it as a merry-go-round, where those rearing horses, nostrils flaring, plunged ahead of her, but only a moment before occupied the very point on the circle, the very point where she and her red-saddled mare now thundered by.
When Coelin said nothing, Jenna stamped her foot, the light flaring yet brighter.
Major - de Coverley swept it away with mighty displeasure the moment he recognized what it was, his good eye flaring up blindingly with fiery disdain and his enormous old corrugated face darkening in mountainous wrath.
By the flaring holocaust light the toothed wheels, the soot-blackened timber cage of the raised grinders seemed more than ever some Dantean vision of torment.
The flaring of a match at an adjacent table revealed the dark blue stain of a head-hunting tattoo decorating the throat of a Dayak man too young to have participated in the fabled ritual wars of his ancestors.
Flaring latissimus dorsi joined at the spine in tightly knit striations.
The sphere was embedded in a framework of clumsy-looking engineering, ducts and pipes and huge flaring fins.
These most incredible dresses, Brandy tells me, the constructed ball gowns, the engineered evening dresses with their hoops and strapless bodices, their stand-up horseshoe collars and flaring shoulders, nipped waists, their stand-away peplums and bones, they never last very long.
They were darkly violet with the hugest flaring nostrils she had ever seen.
I discovered, from the flaring of my matches, that a steady current of air set down the shafts.
They consisted of a power pack which fit into the flaring base of the little dildo, three wireless moldable metal patches, and a sleek black remote.