English Explanatory Dictionary

flaring

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having a tendency of streaming, flapping, or spreading broadly as if within a current of air or in outer space.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of flare
noun
  1. The act of something that flares.
  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.

Word forms

flaring more flaring most flaring flarings

Derived words

flaringly
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