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verb

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

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.

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

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

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.)

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Etymology of 'Flare up'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flare up" Quotes from Famous Books

... how you carry on! Don't flare up so. I meant nothing by it. I'm sorry as much for myself as for you. I've told you I'm not jealous. You think I'm critical. I'm not anything of the kind. I know how you ...

— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser

... he's never mad enough to send to a hospital, or drunk enough to run in, but at any minute he may flare up, brooding and sulking as he does. He resents any interest being shown in him, and the only time I took him out shooting he all but shot me ...

— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... not what to make of it. At first she thought I was lazy and bad, and punished me in various ways; but while my book occupied my mind I was not cross, gave her no impudence, and did not flare up. Then she began to fear I must be ill, and took me to a doctor, who said I was much too precocious for my years, and would be better when the weather got warmer. He gave me a tonic, which I threw out the window. I heard no more of going out as nurse-girl: father had joined a ...

— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin

... room, in this silent, empty inn, in this silent little Friday-night town. Not a sound except our voices and a faint panting he made when he swung. There was the bedroom candle, and one candle on the dressing-table alight, that was all—sometimes one or other would flare up into a tall, lean, astonished flame for a space. And queer things happened. 'I can't,' he said; 'I shall never—!' And suddenly he sat down on a little chair at the foot of the bed and began to sob and sob. Lord! what a ...

— Twelve Stories and a Dream • H. G. Wells

... by electricity. Jim would sit watching the lights flare up after supper, watching the night shift on the broad top of the dam which was as wide as a street and try to pretend that the noise and the light and the figures belonged to 23rd street. Jim was sitting so in the door of his tent one night after nearly ...

— Still Jim • Honore Willsie Morrow

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