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flaring up
verb as in rise
verb as in surface
Weak match
verb as in bristle
verb as in erupt
verb as in explode
verb as in fight
Strong matches
verb as in flame
verb as in ignite
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Example Sentences
Perhaps I should be more understanding, now that my own hoarding tendencies are flaring up.
They had existed beside us, beneath us rather, flaring up like brushfire since the first humanoids left the trees.
Any man who successfully manages a harem knows he must be on the lookout for such resentments, and prevent them from flaring up.
It's a likely story if one can't do that, without one's children flaring up at it—and he the boys' and girls' own saint—Hoot!
Roosevelt heard of the request and was indignant, "flaring up," as Sewall described it.
It was attended, as usual, with a wild flaring up of the vapor at its summit, and a momentary division at its base.
The hag began to explain with vicious gestures that set the light flaring up and down.
The fine flaring-up of youth has set sex rampant, but she is not "immoral," except in her mind.
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On this page you'll find 238 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to flaring 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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