flare up

See also: flareup and flare-up

English

Verb

flare up (third-person singular simple present flares up, present participle flaring up, simple past and past participle flared up)

1. (intransitive) To burn brightly again.

   The fire flared up after we added more wood to it.

2. (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.

3. (intransitive, sometimes with “out” instead of “up”) To burst out suddenly, as in anger.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     “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.

   The insult made him flare up.

Translations

burn brightly again

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: leimahtaa (fi)
• French: se raviver (fr)
• German: aufflackern (de), auflodern, aufleuchten
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: inaestuō
• Maori: papahū, kōwhekowheko
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: вспы́хивать (ru) impf (vspýxivatʹ), вспы́хнуть (ru) pf (vspýxnutʹ)
• Swedish: flamma upp, blossa upp

become more intense suddenly

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: leimahtaa (fi)
• French: s’embraser (fr)
• German: aufflammen, auflodern
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: kōwhekowheko
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: вспы́хивать (ru) impf (vspýxivatʹ)
• Swedish: blossa upp

burst out suddenly, as in anger

• Arabic: اِنْدَلَعَ (indalaʕa)
• Bulgarian: избухвам (bg) (izbuhvam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勃發／勃发 (zh) (bófā), 勃发 (zh) (bófā)

• Finnish: kimmastua, suutahtaa (fi), raivostua (fi), kuohahtaa
• French: s’emporter (fr)
• German: aufflammen, emporlodern
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 勃発する (ぼっぱつする, boppatsu suru)
• Maori: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: الو گرفتن (alow gereftan)
• Polish: wybuchać (pl) impf, wybuchnąć (pl) pf
• Russian: вспы́хивать (ru) impf (vspýxivatʹ), вспы́хнуть (ru) pf (vspýxnutʹ), вспыли́ть (ru) pf (vspylítʹ)
• Swedish: rasa till

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