flare

flare is a 5-letter English word with 23 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
2. intransitive verb. To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
3. intransitive verb. To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.
4. intransitive verb. To be exposed to too much light.
5. intransitive verb. To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.
6. noun. An unsteady, broad, offensive light.
7. noun. A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.
8. noun. Leaf of lard.
9. noun. (baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield
10. noun. a short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines

    "he threw a flare to the fullback who was tackled for a loss"

11. noun. a device that produces a bright light for warning or illumination or identification
12. noun. a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate

    Synonyms: flash

13. noun. a sudden outburst of emotion

    "she felt a flare of delight"

    "she could not control her flare of rage"

14. noun. am unwanted reflection in an optical system (or the fogging of an image that is caused by such a reflection)
15. noun. a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference
16. noun. a sudden burst of flame
17. noun. a shape that spreads outward

    "the skirt had a wide flare"

    Synonyms: flair

18. noun. a sudden recurrence or worsening of symptoms

    "a colitis flare"

    "infection can cause a lupus flare"

19. noun. reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation
20. verb. become flared and widen, usually at one end

    "The bellbottom pants flare out"

21. verb. erupt or intensify suddenly

    "Unrest erupted in the country"

    "Tempers flared at the meeting"

    Synonyms: erupt, irrupt

22. verb. burn brightly

    "Every star seemed to flare with new intensity"

23. verb. shine with a sudden light

    "The night sky flared with the massive bombardment"

    Synonyms: flame

Synonyms

flash, flair, erupt, irrupt, flame

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in flare:

farle, feral, flear

Common word forms

flared, flarer, flares, flaring, flareless

Words from these letters

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