flaring

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flaring

adjective more flaring · most flaring

Having a tendency of streaming, flapping, or spreading broadly as if within a current of air or in outer space. This consists in a waving motion backward and forward, sometimes like a fan, sometimes like a long scroll flying in the wind, over which flaring waves chase each other with such velocity that the eye refuses to follow their trembling flight. It is, no doubt, this characteristic of sudden and seeming

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of flare

noun flarings

countable, uncountable The act of something that flares. […] those shootings of stars, eclipses of the moon, howlings of dogs, and flarings of candles, carefully noted and interpreted by the oracular sibyls […]
countable, uncountable The deliberate open-air burning of natural gas that is generated as a by-product of various petrochemical processes, especially oil extraction; gas flaring. Separate research suggests a switch from the flaring of methane to venting may be behind some of these vast outpourings. Flaring is used to burn unwanted gas, putting CO₂ into the atmosphere, but is easy to detect and has been increasingly frowned upon in recent years.

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@misc{flaring_2026,
  title = {flaring},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/flaring},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}