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outflare

outflare verb: to flare outward.

Verb

outflare (third-person singular simple present outflares, present participle outflaring, simple past and past participle outflared)

  1. (intransitive) To flare outward.
    • 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...
    • … ‘right outflare, left inflare’ pattern, with the innonimates rotated clockwise around the vertical axis …2021 September 12, Wolf Schamberger, The Malalignment Syndrome: diagnosis and treatment of common pelvic and back pain, Elsevier Health Sciences, page 52

Antonyms of outflare

Forms of outflare

third-person singular presentoutflares
present participleoutflaring
past participleoutflared
pastoutflared

Origin of outflare

From out- + flare.

Questions about outflare

What does outflare mean?
Outflare means to flare outward.
What part of speech is outflare?
Outflare is a verb.
What is the past tense of outflare?
The past tense of outflare is outflared.

Words near outflare in the dictionary

  1. outflanks
  2. outflap
  3. outflapped
  4. outflapping
  5. outflaps
  6. outflare
  7. outflared
  8. outflares
  9. outflaring
  10. outflarings
  11. outflash

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