Sekirov Dictionary

flaring

noun 2
adjective 1
forms 3

noun2

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The act of something that flares.
- […] those shootings of stars, eclipses of the moon, howlings of dogs, and flarings of candles, carefully noted and interpreted by the oracular sibyls […] — 1809
The deliberate open-air burning of natural gas that is generated as a by-product of various petrochemical processes, especially oil extraction; gas flaring.

adjective1

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Having a tendency of streaming, flapping, or spreading broadly as if within a current of air or in outer space.
- Mazie and Nick have trouble, in the first place, making the fire. They finally start a great flaring fire instead of the small steady flame that Prudence requires for cooking. — 1939

forms

flarings · more flaring · most flaring

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