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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



... come down, and it flames and pieces began to break away. And then down it came, leaving flaming pieces all up the sky. At last it was a pillar of fire eight thousand feet high.... Everyone said, 'Ooooo!' And then someone pointed out the little aeroplane lit up by the flare—such a leetle thing up there in the night! It is the greatest thing I have ever seen. Oh! ...
— War and the Future • H. G. Wells

... silent; his eyes glanced through the mass of soldiers to the little cottage under the trees opposite. The two there were straining to behold him, but the soldiers pushed them back, so that in the flare of the torches they could not see, nor in the tumult hear. He thanked God ...
— Stories By English Authors: France • Various

... too weary to stir or lift her hand; a depression as absolute as her flare of rage enveloped her. Now the reason for her coming seemed inexplicable, as if, for the while, her mind had failed. She repressed a shudder at the thought of being, through the long nights of his restlessness and wandering voice, alone with Pleydon. She hadn't, Linda discovered, ...
— Linda Condon • Joseph Hergesheimer

... stepped softly inside and stood in the flare of the candle-light. He felt that he must give some reason for his appearance at this late hour, even if he did not see Jane. It would be just as well, therefore, to tell Martha of Bart's death at once, and not let her hear it, as she was sure to do, from someone on ...
— The Tides of Barnegat • F. Hopkinson Smith

... a sachem, in red blanket wrapt, Who, 'mid some council of the sad-garbed whites, Erect and stern, in his own memories lapt, With distant eye broods over other sights, 60 Sees the hushed wood the city's flare replace, The wounded turf heal o'er the railway's trace, And roams the savage ...
— The Vision of Sir Launfal - And Other Poems • James Russell Lowell


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