Usually means: Temporary increase in brightness, stars.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. flaring: Merriam-Webster
  2. flaring: Collins English Dictionary
  3. flaring: Vocabulary.com
  4. Flaring, flaring: Wordnik
  5. flaring: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. flaring: Wiktionary
  7. flaring: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. flaring: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. flaring: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Flaring, flaring: Dictionary.com
  11. flaring: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Flaring: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Flaring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. flaring: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. flaring: Rhymezone
  16. Flaring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. flaring: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. flaring: FreeDictionary.org
  19. flaring: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Flaring: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. flaring: Legal dictionary

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  1. flaring: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. flaring: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. flaring: Medical dictionary

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  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. flaring: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Flaring: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (flaring)

▸ noun:  The act of something that flares.
▸ noun:  (oil industry) The deliberate open-air burning of natural gas that is generated as a by-product of various petrochemical processes, especially oil extraction; gas flaring.

Similar:
aflare, waving, fluttering, flying, increasing, moving, matchflare, flaming, blazing, flareback, more...

Opposite:
constricting, narrowing, tightening, closing

Types:
upward flaring, downward flaring, angled flaring, bell-mouth flaring, conical flaring, double flaring, single flaring, bubble flaring, more...

Phrases:
flaring up, nasal flaring, flaring stars, more...

Adjectives:
nasal, sudden, more, slight, metaphyseal, last, lateral, alar, wide, multitudinous, outward

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Similar:
aflare, waving, fluttering, flying, increasing, moving, matchflare, flaming, blazing, flareback, more...

Opposite:
constricting, narrowing, tightening, closing

Types:
upward flaring, downward flaring, angled flaring, bell-mouth flaring, conical flaring, double flaring, single flaring, bubble flaring, more...

Phrases:
flaring up, nasal flaring, flaring stars, more...

Adjectives:
nasal, sudden, more, slight, metaphyseal, last, lateral, alar, wide, multitudinous, outward

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     scarlet,     crimson, more...



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