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inflare

inflare verb: to flare inward.

Verb

inflare (third-person singular simple present inflares, present participle inflaring, simple past and past participle inflared)

  1. (intransitive) To flare inward.
    • One hundred and seventy tracings of the feet of Oriental adults from China and India, many of whom have never worn shoes, showed the three types of straight, outflared and inflared feet as in shoe-wearing Americans, though the percentages of the three classes are different.1916, HENRY LING TAYLOR, M.D., “RESULTS OF RESEARCH ON CONDITIONS AFFECTING POSTURE”, in TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECTION ON Orthopedic Surgery of the American Medical Association, Sixty-Seventh Annual...
    • While the femoral head flexes and aducts and internally rotates, the opposite ilial surface will have the following accessory movements: superior glide with inflare and internal rotation.2001, Sharon Giammatteo, Integrative Manual Therapy for the Upper and Lower Extremities, revised edition, volume II, North Atlantic Books, page 148

Antonyms of inflare

Forms of inflare

third-person singular presentinflares
present participleinflaring
past participleinflared
pastinflared

Origin of inflare

From in- + flare.

Questions about inflare

What does inflare mean?
Inflare means to flare inward.
What part of speech is inflare?
Inflare is a verb.
What is the past tense of inflare?
The past tense of inflare is inflared.

Words near inflare in the dictionary

  1. inflammopathology
  2. inflammophilic
  3. inflammosome
  4. inflammosomes
  5. inflammosuppression
  6. inflare
  7. inflared
  8. inflaring
  9. inflatability
  10. inflatable
  11. inflatable castle

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