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outflare

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Etymology

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From out- +‎ flare.

Verb

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outflare (third-person singular simple present outflares, present participle outflaring, simple past and past participle outflared)

  1. (intransitive) To flare outward.
    • 1916, HENRY LING TAYLOR, M.D., “RESULTS OF RESEARCH ON CONDITIONS AFFECTING POSTURE”, in TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECTION ON Orthopedic Surgery of the American Medical Association, Sixty-Seventh Annual Session, page 101:
      One hundred and seventy tracings of the feet of Oriental adults from China and India, many of whom have never worn shoes, showed the three types of straight, outflared and inflared feet as in shoe-wearing Americans, though the percentages of the three classes are different.
    • 2021 September 12, Wolf Schamberger, The Malalignment Syndrome: diagnosis and treatment of common pelvic and back pain, Elsevier Health Sciences, page 52:
      … ‘right outflare, left inflare’ pattern, with the innonimates rotated clockwise around the vertical axis …

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