Definitions for flaring

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flaring flar·ing

Spelling: [flair-ing]

IPA: /ˈflɛər ɪŋ/

Flaring is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 196 anagrams from letters in flaring (afgilnr).

Definitions for flaring

noun

1. a flaring or swaying flame or light, as of torches in the wind.
2. a sudden blaze or burst of flame.
3. a bright blaze of fire or light used as a signal, a means of illumination or guidance, etc.
4. a device or substance used to produce such a blaze of fire or light.
5. a sudden burst, as of zeal or of anger.
6. a gradual spread outward in form; outward curvature:
7. something that spreads out.
8. Optics. light, often unwanted or extraneous, reaching the image plane of an optical instrument, as a camera, resulting from reflections, scattering by lenses, and the like.
9. Photography. a fogged appearance given to an image by reflection within a camera lens or within the camera itself.
10. Also called solar flare. Astronomy. a sudden and brief brightening of the solar atmosphere in the vicinity of a sunspot that results from an explosive release of particles and radiation.
11. Football. a short pass thrown to a back who is running toward a sideline and is not beyond the line of scrimmage.
12. Television. a dark area on a CRT picture tube caused by variations in light intensity.

adjective

1. blazing; flaming.
2. glaringly bright or showy.
3. spreading gradually outward in form:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause (a candle, torch, etc.) to burn with a swaying flame.
2. to display conspicuously or ostentatiously.
3. to signal by flares of fire or light.
4. to cause (something) to spread gradually outward in form.
5. Metallurgy. to heat (a high-zinc brass) to such a high temperature that the zinc vapors begin to burn.
6. to discharge and burn (excess gas) at a well or refinery.

verb (used without object)

1. to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
2. to blaze with a sudden burst of flame (often followed by up):
3. to start up or burst out in sudden, fierce intensity or activity (often followed by up):
4. to become suddenly enraged; express sudden, fierce anger or passion (usually followed by up or out):
5. to shine or glow.
6. to spread gradually outward, as the end of a trumpet, the bottom of a wide skirt, or the sides of a ship.

Origin of flaring

First recorded in 1585-95; flare + -ing²

Examples for flaring

Crime is on the rise and tensions throughout the city are flaring.

"I can't have you ask me that again," said the boy, flaring up into a sudden passion.

Nasmyth laughed as he glanced at the flaring lamp above his head.

Perhaps I should be more understanding, now that my own hoarding tendencies are flaring up.

They had existed beside us, beneath us rather, flaring up like brushfire since the first humanoids left the trees.

The epidemic was flaring anew last month, when Spencer left New York for Guinea.

Tensions with Israel are flaring again as pro-Palestinian activists prepare to send more aid ships to Gaza.

Then he called to one of the men-at-arms who stood by with a flaring torch.

The sun has now withdrawn his splendid lustre, and his flaring beams.

He raised his arm, and turned off the flaring gas-jet above his head.