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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)

  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...

Questions about inflaring

What is inflaring the present participle of?
Inflaring is the present participle of inflare.

Words near inflaring in the dictionary

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

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