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View definitions for flares up

flares up

verb as in surface

verb as in flame

verb as in ignite

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“I have an unfortunate temper that flares up not too often, thank God,” Baquet says.

If violence flares up again, of course voters may disapprove of Obama's handling in greater numbers.

Today the pain of racism flares up and then subsides; it throbs like a dull ache and often its source can be hard to locate.

You dip this in another man's lighted pipe, when it flares up, and you can light your own.

But the man who flares up, flames for a moment and is calm the next never lacks for companions or devotees.

When the critical moment arrives it flares up and illumines great deeds.

The situation might be compared to those hysterias in which a suppressed impulse flares up and rules the whole mental life.

The fire flares up with hellish eyes in every dark corner, and men swarm around in the red glow like evil angels.

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On this page you'll find 238 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to flares up, such as: begin, come, develop, emerge, go, and happen.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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