flare up
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flare up (third-person singular simple present flares up, present participle flaring up, simple past and past participle flared up)
- (intransitive) To burn brightly again.
- The fire flared up after we added more wood to it.
- (intransitive) To become more intense suddenly.
- Reports indicate that tensions have flared up in the Middle East again.
- The pain in my shoulder flares up when I turn my head.
- (intransitive, sometimes with “out” instead of “up”) To burst out suddenly, as in anger.
- The insult made him flare up.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- “Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- "It's my Welsh half that comes out when I flare up. Let the conjurors take their dirty money and let the rich folk keep their purses shut."
Translations[edit]
burn brightly again
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become more intense suddenly
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burst out suddenly, as in anger
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