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outflaring

outflaring is the present participle and gerund of outflare.

Meaning of outflare

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...

Noun

outflaring (plural outflarings)

  1. A flaring outward.

Forms of outflaring

pluraloutflarings

Questions about outflaring

What does outflaring mean?
Outflaring means a flaring outward.
What is outflaring the present participle and gerund of?
Outflaring is the present participle and gerund of outflare.
What part of speech is outflaring?
Outflaring is a noun.
What is the plural of outflaring?
The plural of outflaring is outflarings.

Words near outflaring in the dictionary

  1. outflapping
  2. outflaps
  3. outflare
  4. outflared
  5. outflares
  6. outflaring
  7. outflarings
  8. outflash
  9. outflashed
  10. outflashes
  11. outflashing

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