Meaning

3 senses
  1. (not comparable)Flaring (blazing or shining brightly or suddenly; also figuratively, of a strong emotion).

    1886, Mary Noailles Murfree (as Charles Egbert Craddock), In the Clouds, Chapter 17, p. 248, the flaming base of the opposite mountain, all luridly aflare in the windy dusk

  2. (not comparable)Illuminated (with something blazing or shining).

  3. (not comparable)Flaring (opening outward).

More definitions
  • streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air
  • lighted up by or as by fire or flame

Synonyms

6 synonyms
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