📖 Определения и значения для слова flare
📒 to burn brightly, but usually for only a short time or not steadily
- The match flared and went out.
- The fire flared into life.
- (figurative) Colour flared in her cheeks.
📒 to suddenly start or become much stronger
- Violence flared when the police moved in.
- Tempers flared towards the end of the meeting.
- Anger suddenly flared in his eyes.
📒 to say something in an angry and aggressive way
- ‘You should have told me!’ she flared at him.
📒 to become wider towards the bottom
- The sleeves are tight to the elbow, then flare out.
📒 if a person or an animal flares their nostrils (= the openings at the end of the nose), or if their nostrils flare, they become wider, especially as a sign of anger
- The horse backed away, its nostrils flaring with fear.