Meaning of FLARING
| Pronunciation: | | 'flehring
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- [adj] streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air; "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her"; "a fluttering scarf"; "flying banners"; "flags waving in the breeze"
- [adj] having a gradual increase in width; "flared nostrils"; "a skirt flaring from the waist"
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| | Synonyms: | | aflare, flared, fluttering, flying, increasing, moving, waving |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Flar"ing\, a.
1. That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out
with a dazzling light.
His [the sun's] flaring beams. --Milton.
2. Opening or speading outwards.
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| | Related Terms: | | ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, blatant, blazing, blinding, brazen, brazenfaced, burning, candent, candescent, colorful, comburent, conflagrant, crude, deltoid, extravagant, fanlike, fanned, fanning, fan-shape, fan-shaped, fiery, flabelliform, flagrant, flaming, flared, flashing, flashy, flaunting, flickering, fulgurant, fulgurating, fuming, garish, gaudy, glaring, glowing, gorgeous, guttering, ignescent, ignited, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, kindled, live, living, loud, lurid, meretricious, meteoric, obtrusive, on fire, open, outspread, outstretched, overbright, patulous, raw, reeking, scintillant, scintillating, screaming, sensational, shameless, shrieking, smoking, smoldering, sparking, spectacular, splay, splayed, splaying, spraddled, spraddling, sprangled, sprangling, sprawling, sprawly, spread, spreading, stretched-out, tawdry, unextinguished, unfolded, unquenched, vulgar, wide-open, widespread |
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