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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



... up a flare. Black forms stand rigid there, Stock-still like posts; then darkness, and the clumsy ghosts Stride hither and thither, whispering, tripped by clutching snare Of snags and tangles. Ghastly dawn with vaporous coasts Gleams desolate along ...
— Counter-Attack and Other Poems • Siegfried Sassoon
... still on its last wearisome stage, rattled over the solitary Campagna. The savage herdsmen and the fierce-looking peasants who had chequered the way while the light lasted, had all gone down with the sun, and left the wilderness blank. At some turns of the road, a pale flare on the horizon, like an exhalation from the ruin-sown land, showed that the city was yet far off; but this poor relief was rare and short-lived. The carriage dipped down again into a hollow of the black dry sea, and for a ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens
... increased—now and then a ribbon of light, palpitant with every color of the rainbow, was flung across the sky. Ootah lifted his harpoon lance—the sky was momentarily flooded with light—he struck. In the next flare he saw the bear lying on the ice—his lance had pierced the brute's heart. Attracted by the barking of Ootah's dogs, several tribesmen soon joined him in dressing the animal. During their task, one suddenly beckoned silence, and ...
— The Eternal Maiden • T. Everett Harre
... The flare showed her the empty room. Oddly, she stared at the telephone as though she expected it to reveal something. Some one had stood there and had talked with her. And Johnny was not at camp at all; had ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower
... What a flare and what an effect, when the bluish flames played on the surface of the basin. Alvez, doubtless to render that alcohol still sharper, had mingled with it a few handfuls of sea salt. The assistants' faces were then given that spectral lividness that the ...
— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne


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