flareup

See also: flare-up and flare up

English

Etymology

Deverbal from flare up.

Noun

flareup (plural flareups)

  1. Alternative spelling of flare-up
    • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 1, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
      All the legendry, of course, white and Indian alike, died down during the nineteenth century, except for occasional atavistical flareups.

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