inflaring
inflaring is the present participle of inflare.
Meaning of inflare
Verb
inflare (third-person singular simple present inflares, present participle inflaring, simple past and past participle inflared)
- 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...
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- What is inflaring the present participle of?
- Inflaring is the present participle of inflare.
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