flared

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There's very little patrols and fewer proactive citizen engagements that aren't because crime has flared up in that sector.

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Of trousers, etc., widening towards the lower parts of the legs; bell-bottomed.

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adjective

Of trousers, etc., widening towards the lower parts of the legs; bell-bottomed.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for flared.

adjective

Of trousers, etc., widening towards the lower parts of the legs; bell-bottomed.

Example sentences

There's very little patrols and fewer proactive citizen engagements that aren't because crime has flared up in that sector.

Like those stupid plastic awareness bracelets, check-ins were a fad that flared briefly and is now completely, 100% over.

A decentralized process would let you use all the stranded natural gas that is currently flared.

You can even run the engine on the natural gas that comes out too (which would normally just be flared off).

I had some knee pain that flared up around that point and my elbows hurt all the time.

I'm actually surprised to see the visual and mechanical simplicity of many games that have flared up in popularity among my students.

I eventually discovered the source of the mysterious pain when I tried to solve a Rubik's Cube and it flared up again.

Vast quantities of gas from oilfields is flared, deliberately, continuously.

This flared my tendinitis up like you wouldn't believe.

That's why when tension 1 flared up a few weeks ago, Reddit banned some subreddits and implicitly threatened others with banning, and when tension 2 flared up yesterday, some other subreddits threatened to shut down and successfully forced Reddit to care.

But I agree with the article, when you read deeper into the comments and commits, it's not virulent in the record (though I'm sure tempers flared).

Eventually, amidst high tensions the next year, there was an incident between Britsh, merchant and Qing ships off Canton, which flared things up into a shooting war.

Quote examples

Sorry, my "GUIs rule" knee jerk reaction flared up.

Like those stupid plastic awareness bracelets, check-ins were a fad that flared briefly and is now completely, 100% over." Let's look at the upside of all of this though.

If you think you will, or should, be "happy" while doing this, you're a product of a self-indulgent culture that flared up in one country for half a century, and you'll quickly learn otherwise.