Flaring
['fleərɪŋ] or ['flɛrɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flare
(a.) That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light.
(a.) Opening or speading outwards.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Flaming, glaring, conspicuous, gaudy, bright, over-colored, flaunting, flashy,showy, tawdry, ostentatious
ANT:Toned, subdued, harmonized, dull, dim, dowdy, dingy, neutral, colorless
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Examples
- He lighted the candle from the flaring match with great deliberation, and dropped the match, and trod it out. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Affery opened it a very little, with a flaring candle in her hands and asked who was that, at that time of night, with that knock! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Feeling him looking, she lifted her face and sought his eyes, her own beautiful grey eyes flaring him a great signal. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was very cold, and, a collier coming by us, with her galley-fire smoking and flaring, looked like a comfortable home. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The flaring lamps of a carriage were immediately in view. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- This apparatus as invented by Edison consists of a flaring box, curved at one end to fit closely over the forehead and eyes, while the other end of the box is closed by a paste-board cover. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The torches we carried dropped great blotches of fire upon the track, and I could see those, too, lying smoking and flaring. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was quite invisible in the flaring lights of the camp fires. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I entered a little room, with a flaring paper of the largest pattern on the walls. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Margaret insisted upon going into the full light of the flaring gas inside to take the ticket. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- At great intervals there are in this emptiness flaring centres of heat and light, the fixed stars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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