Flare Up

Definition: Flare Up

Flare Up

Verb

1. Ignite quickly and suddenly.

2. Erupt or intensify suddenly; "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting".

3. Become suddenly excited or angry; "She flares up easily".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Flare Up

Excitability

Lose one's temper; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck; battre la campagne, faire le diable a quatre, play the deuce.

Excitation

Be excited; Adjective: flush up, flare up; catch the infection; thrill; (feel); mantle; work oneself up; seethe, boil, simmer, foam, fume, flame, rage, rave; run mad; (passion).

Resentment

Fly into a rage, fall into a rage, get into a rage, fly into a passion; bridle up, bristle up, froth up, fire up, flare up; open the vials of one's wrath, pour out the vials of one's wrath.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

In some cases, neuropathy can flare up suddenly, causing weakness and weight loss. Depression may follow. (references)

Typically, map-dot-fingerprint dystrophy will flare up occasionally for a few years and then go away on its own, with no lasting loss of vision. (references)

Unfortunately, the effects of drug treatment don't last. Infections will usually flare up again a few weeks or months after the antifungal drugs are stopped. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "flare up": flare up and die ♦ To flare up. Additional references.

Afrikaans

flikker (flare). (various references)

Albanian

flakërim (flame, flare, flash, glow), zemërohem (cut up rough, get angry, lose one's nerve, lose one's temper), shtohem (accrue, augment, breed, grow, multiply, proliferate, propagate, pullulate, stiffen, swell, wax), shpërthim (access, blast, blowout, burst, conniption, detonation, effusion, eruption, explosion, fit, flare, furor, gush, gust, outbreak, outburst, output, paroxysm, report, Sally, tornado), nis befas (break out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وسع (aggrandize, amplify, broaden, contain, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, extend, flare, splay, widen), ‏تفجر الغضب, ‏إندلاع (outbreak, setting fire), ‏إستشاط غضبا (fly at, get in one's hair, grow angry, rage). (various references)

Bulgarian 

внезапно пламване, внезапно избухване, внезапна схватка, лумвам (flame, flame up, flare, kindle), пламвам (burn up, catch fire, fire, flame, flame up, flare, flush, kindle, take, turn scarlet). (various references)

Czech

vzplanout (fire, flame up, fly into), vyšlehnout (leap), strhnout se. (various references)

Dutch

flikkeren (flare, flash, flicker, lighten), flakkeren (flare, flicker), wapperen (flare, flirt, flit, flutter), vonken schieten (flare), schitteren (flare, shine). (various references)

Esperanto

flagri (flare). (various references)

Faeroese

flákra (flare, flirt, flit, flutter), blaktra (flare). (various references)

Finnish

tulistua (get excited, lose one's temper), suutahtaa (become angered), puhjeta ilmiliekkiin (burst into flame), pikaistua (lose one's temper), leimahtaa ilmituleen (blaze up, burst into flame), kuohahtaa (boil), kimpaantua, kiihtyä (become agitated, get excited, increase), hulmahtaa (flutter). (various references)

French

vaciller (flare, flicker), ondoyer (flare, flow). (various references)

German

flackern (flare, flicker, glint, to flare, to flicker, to glint, unsteadiness, waver), zucken (flash, flicker, flinch, jerk, quiver, shiver, shrug, shrugged, start, streak, thrash about, tremble, tremor, twinge, twitch, work), entflammen (arouse, be aroused, burst into flames, catch fire, fire, ignite, inflame, rouse), entbrennen (be aroused, be fired, burn, catch, erupt, flash on, kindle, strike, take fire), auflodern (blaze, blaze up, burn up, flare, go up in flames, to blaze up), aufflammen (blaze up, flame up, inflammation, kindle, to flame up, to flash), auffahren (ascend, bring up, dish up, drive against, drive into, drive to close behind, drive up, enter, fly into a rage, go up, move up, run into, serve up, start, start up, to drive against, to start up), aufbrausen (break out, burst forth, effervesce, fizz up, flare, fly off the handle, surge, to flare up), aufblitzen (flare, flash, flash through one's mind, to flash). (various references)

Greek 

εξάπτομαι (flush, fume, seethe, twitter). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תלקח (be inflamed, blaze up, catch fire, fire, fire up, flame, ignite), ל�"תפרץ (barge in, break in, break out, burst, gush, jet, make a scene, surge), ל�"שתל�"ב, לצאת מ�'�"רו (burst out, lose one's temper), �"תלקחות (catching fire, combustibility, inflammability). (various references)

Hungarian

lángra lobban (flame up, get inflamed, ignite, to blaze up, to break into flames, to burst into flame, to burst into flames, to catch alight, to flame up, to flare up, to go up in flames, to inflame). (various references)

Indonesian

memarak (glow), golak (outburst), gebu, berkobar (ablaze, deflagrate, rage), bergejolak (fluctuate). (various references)

Italian

infuriare (bluster, fly into a rage, rage, rave, storm), divampare (blaze up, burn, burst out), avvampare (blaze, blaze up, flare). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

かさかさ鳴る (burning hotly, clattering, clink, cucumber, exactly, flying into a rage, frozen solid, I wonder, knocking, obstinate, scared stiff, set rock hard, tick-tock, tightly, to crinkle, to grow numb with cold, to make a rustling sound, to rustle, with a click). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かっと (flying into a rage). (various references)

Manx

streeu (altercate; striving, altercation, conflict, contend, contention, contest, cope, disagree, discord, disputation, encounter, endeavour, scuffle, squabble, strife, strive, variance). (various references)

Pig Latin

areflay upay

Portuguese

irromper (burst, flame, gush, outbreak), encolerizar-se (fume, rage), chamejar (flame, flare, flicker). (various references)

Romanian

semnal luminos (beacon, flare), scandal (affray, breach, breeze, fray, fuss, hubbub, noise, row, rumpus, scandal, scene, shame, shindy), izbucnire a flãcãrilor. (various references)

Russian 

разгораться (flame up), разозлиться (flame out, flame up, turn nasty, wax angry), вспыхнуть (catch fire, flame up, flash). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

planuti (blaze, break out, burst in, burst into, fire up, flare, flash), buknuti (blaze, burst, burst into, erupt, flame out, flare). (various references)

Spanish

reñir a (hassle, squabble, wrangle), estallar (bang, blow up, break, break forth, break out, burst, crack, detonate, erupt, explode, go off, go up, outbreak, puncture, shatter), encolerizarse (get angry, see red), encenderse (blaze up, blush, burn up, catch, catch fire, come on, come up, flare, get excited, get red, go off, go on, ignite, inflame, kindle, light, strike), conflagración (conflagration, incendiarism). (various references)

Swedish

flamma upp (blaze up, flame out, flame up, kindle), fatta humör, utbrott (access, breaking out, burst, ebullition, eruption, explosion, fireworks, fit, gush, gust, outbreak, outburst, Sally), uppflammande, uppblossande (blazing up), brusa upp (fire up, flame out, flame up), bråk (ado, bother, brawl, din, disturbance, dust-up, fracas, fraction, fray, fuss, hubbub, hullaballoo, hullabaloo, incident, kick up, miff, noise, rag, row, ruction, rumpus, trouble, tumult, unpleasantness, uproar, upset), blossa upp (flush up). (various references)

Turkish

parlayıvermek, parlamak (beam, blaze, blink, coruscate, flash, fulminate, glare, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, light up, lighten, loose off at, shine, shine out, smile, sparkle, twinkle), parlama (deflagrate, deflagration, explosion, flare, flash, glaze, irradiance, shining, sparkle, sparkling), hiddet (anger, Bate, dudgeon, exasperation, flame, furor, furore, fury, Paddy, rage, sound and fury, spunk, steam, wrath), alevlenmek (blaze out, blaze up, flame, flare, flicker, rekindle), alevleniverme, öfke (anger, berserker rage, choler, displeasure, dudgeon, exasperation, flare, frenzy, fume, fury, heat, huffiness, indignation, ire, irritation, pash, passion, pet, rage, sound and fury, spunk, steam, storm, temper, wax, wrath). (various references)

Turkmen 

lowlamak (blaze), labyrdamak (blaze, glow). (various references)

Ukrainian

світловий сигнал, спалах (blaze, burst, deflagration, explosion, flare, flash, glint, outleap, rage, spark), розгніватися (blaze out, bristle, get angry). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: flareup.

-1 letter: earful, ferula, pleura, purfle.

-2 letters: farle, feral, feuar, flare, paler, pareu, parle, pearl, puler, ureal.

-3 letters: alef, aper, earl, fare, farl, feal, fear, flap, flea, flue, frae, frap, fuel, furl, leaf, leap, lear, lure, pale, pare, peal, pear, pelf, plea, prau, pula, pule, pure, purl, rale, rape, real, reap, rule, urea.

-4 letters: ale, alp.

+1 letter: flareups.

+2 letters: prayerful, prefeudal.

+3 letters: painfuller, platterful, prequalify, presageful, superflack.

+4 letters: peacefuller, platterfuls, plattersful, prayerfully, prefectural, reproachful, superfamily, superficial, superflacks.

+5 letters: pasqueflower, preformulate, prequalified, prequalifies, sprachgefuhl, unprofitable.