How to pronounce flare

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What flare means

verb

Most people know flare in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To spread out wider toward the end or bottom

In a sentence: Her new jeans flare out wide at the bottom, like bells.

Where it comes from: It was first written down in the mid 1500s, and it is probably related to a Latin word meaning to burn. It is the same word as a flare of light.

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