1. flares - Noun
2. flares - Verb
flares
plural of flare
flares pl (plural only)
Bell-bottoms, pants with flared legs.
flares
third-person singular simple present indicative of flare
Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes. Philip Larkin
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible. Rollo May
The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived. Gilda Radner
Bent double like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Wilfred Owen
What flares up fast, extinguishes soon. Turkish Proverb