FLARE-UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flare-up mean? 

• FLARE-UP (noun)
  The noun FLARE-UP has 1 sense:

1. a sudden intense happening

  Familiarity information: FLARE-UP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLARE-UP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sudden intense happening

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

burst; flare-up; outburst

Context example:

a burst of lightning

Hypernyms ("flare-up" is a kind of...):

happening; natural event; occurrence; occurrent (an event that happens)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flare-up"):

salvo (an outburst resembling the discharge of firearms or the release of bombs)

rush (a sudden burst of activity)

Derivation:

flare up (erupt or intensify suddenly)

 Context examples 

Neuropathic Pain Scale (NPS) I feel a background pain all of the time and occasional flare-ups (break-through pain) some of the time.

(NPS - Describe the Background Pain, NCI Thesaurus)

Some children have just one or two flare-ups.

(Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

The diseases may also have flare-ups, when they get worse, and remissions, when symptoms get better or disappear.

(Autoimmune Diseases, NIH)

As they drew closer and orbited faster, the stars eventually broke apart and merged, producing both a gamma-ray burst and a rarely seen flare-up called a "kilonova."

(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)

Describe the flare-up (break-through) pain.

(NPS - Describe the Flare-up Pain, NCI Thesaurus)

A study led by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is the first to observe the complex set of biochemical and molecular events that disrupt the microbiome and trigger immune responses during flare-ups of inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.

(New findings reveal how microbiome is disrupted during disease flare-ups, National Science Foundation)