| flare-up | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a sudden burst of fire or light |
| 2. | informal a sudden burst of emotion or violence |
| —vb | |
| 3. | to burst suddenly into fire or light |
| 4. | informal to burst into anger |
| flare-up | |
noun | |
| a sudden intense happening; "an outburst of heavy rain"; "a burst of lightning" [syn: outburst] |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |