flare
/fleər/ v [I] (HAPPEN SUDDENLY)Definition
› to happen in a sudden and often violent way: The dispute threatens to flare into a lawsuit. The argument quieted down then flared up again.
(Definition of flare v (HAPPEN SUDDENLY) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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