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Flare   /flɛr/   Listen
Flare

noun
1.
A shape that spreads outward.  Synonym: flair.
2.
A sudden burst of flame.
3.
A burst of light used to communicate or illuminate.  Synonym: flash.
4.
Reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation.
5.
A sudden recurrence or worsening of symptoms.  "Infection can cause a lupus flare"
6.
A sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference.  Synonym: solar flare.
7.
Am unwanted reflection in an optical system (or the fogging of an image that is caused by such a reflection).
8.
A sudden outburst of emotion.  "She could not control her flare of rage"
9.
A device that produces a bright light for warning or illumination or identification.
10.
A short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines.  Synonym: flare pass.
11.
(baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield.
verb
(past & past part. flared; pres. part. flaring)
1.
Burn brightly.  Synonyms: blaze up, burn up, flame up.
2.
Become flared and widen, usually at one end.  Synonym: flare out.
3.
Shine with a sudden light.  Synonym: flame.
4.
Erupt or intensify suddenly.  Synonyms: break open, burst out, erupt, flare up, irrupt.  "Tempers flared at the meeting" , "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism"



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"Flare" Quotes from Famous Books



... the narrow space thus cleared and by the narrower radius of match flare, crouched ...
— His Dog • Albert Payson Terhune
... Mahmoud on a splendid war-horse, and five of his mounted staff, arrived at the head of the oncoming column; and Kagig saw them in a moment when the flare from the castle roared like a rocket hundreds of feet high and scattered all the shadows on that section of the road. Kagig passed the word along, but it was Monty who devised the instant plan, and one of Will's men who came ...
— The Eye of Zeitoon • Talbot Mundy
... have sworn that Carroll was surprised at Barker's flare of anger—or else that it had passed unnoticed. "I just figured that you, having been his valet, and knowing a good deal about him, would ...
— Midnight • Octavus Roy Cohen
... for my case of lucifers, and made a faint light by which she might read. The flare of the match lit up her face perfectly, bringing out the framing roll of thick dark hair, from which, as a high light in a mass of shadows, the clear and yet strong features of her face showed plainly. I saw the long lashes ...
— 54-40 or Fight • Emerson Hough
... was sacrilege. In reading his "Troilus and Cressida," you ever and anon fear you have lost your senses. Bits of veritable Shakspearean gold, burnished star-bright, embossed in pewter! Diamonds set in dirt! Sentences illuminated with words of power, suddenly rising and sinking, through a flare of fustian! Here Apollo's ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various


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