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flaring

/flair-ing/US // ˈflɛər ɪŋ //

燃烧,扩张,膨胀,扩口

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : blazing; flaming.
    • : glaringly bright or showy.
    • : spreading gradually outward in form: a flaring skirt.

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Examples

  • It could offer a brand new way to fuel electricity-guzzling crypto farms, while cutting emissions produced through the flaring of natural gas.

  • Perhaps I should be more understanding, now that my own hoarding tendencies are flaring up.

  • The epidemic was flaring anew last month, when Spencer left New York for Guinea.

  • The reason to watch The View is the same as watching Real Housewives: We want to watch argument, tempers flaring.

  • One night, driving home, I passed an alley and saw someone light a crack pipe, the tiny red ember flaring bright.

  • Crime is on the rise and tensions throughout the city are flaring.

  • The colours of the rainbow shone there in pale tints, and the flaring sunshine could not enter.

  • There was a dry-goods clerk, who wore flaring ties, and who played the role of a "masher" upon the avenue every evening.

  • Up against the black morning sky there streamed a broad flaring of red, irregular and uncertain.

  • The fire in the range had gone out; the candle-flame, flaring above a saucer of melted wax, sank lower and lower.

  • Twas cold, and the lamp was flaring: I closed the door against this inrush of weather.