What does "flaring" mean?
The act of something that flares.
Flaring
adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The act of something that flares.
- Grammar: flaring is listed as adj, noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare.
- Useful contrasts: calm, dim, dimming.
- Usage evidence: His wife repulsed him on the pretext that her headaches were flaring up again.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of something that flares. countable, uncountable
"[…] those shootings of stars, eclipses of the moon, howlings of dogs, and flarings of candles, carefully noted and interpreted by the oracular sibyls […]"
- 2 The deliberate open-air burning of natural gas that is generated as a by-product of various petrochemical processes, especially oil extraction; gas flaring. countable, uncountable
"Separate research suggests a switch from the flaring of methane to venting may be behind some of these vast outpourings. Flaring is used to burn unwanted gas, putting CO₂ into the atmosphere, but is easy to detect and has been increasingly frowned upon in recent years."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of flare form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 1 Having a tendency of streaming, flapping, or spreading broadly as if within a current of air or in outer space.
"This consists in a waving motion backward and forward, sometimes like a fan, sometimes like a long scroll flying in the wind, over which flaring waves chase each other with such velocity that the eye refuses to follow their trembling flight. It is, no doubt, this characteristic of sudden and seemingly capricious motion which has given rise in the imagination to the dragons, demons and giants, to the elvish " merry dancers " of the Shetlanders, to the Valkyries of the Norsemen, and to the ghostly gambols of the departed spirits of the Eskimos, to all the wealth of myth and folk-lore which touched the hearts and quickened the imaginations of the long forgotten forefathers of these northern tribes."
Adjective
- 1 streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air wordnet
Antonyms
Example
"His wife repulsed him on the pretext that her headaches were flaring up again."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "flaring"?
Common synonyms include: ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare, aflicker, aggravated.
How do you use "flaring" in a sentence?
His wife repulsed him on the pretext that her headaches were flaring up again.