inflare

I1N1F4L1A1R1E1

verb

To flare inward.

Opposite
Scrabble 10

Meanings

verbinflare (third-person singular simple present inflares, present participle inflaring, simple past and past participle inflared)

present singular third person inflares · participle present inflaring · participle past inflared · past inflared

  1. intransitiveTo flare inward.

    … ‘right outflare, left inflare’ pattern, with the innonimates rotated clockwise around the vertical axis …

    2021 September 12, Wolf Schamberger, The Malalignment Syndrome: diagnosis and treatment of common pelvic and back pain, Elsevier Health Sciences, page 52
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    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.

    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

    While the femoral head flexes and aducts and internally rotates, the opposite ilial surface will have the following accessory movements: superior glide with inflare and internal rotation.

    2001, Sharon Giammatteo, Integrative Manual Therapy for the Upper and Lower Extremities, revised edition, volume II, North Atlantic Books, page 148

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Germanic*in
  3. Proto-West Germanic*in
  4. Old Englishin
  5. Old Englishin-
  6. Middle Englishin-
  7. Englishin-
  8. Englishflare
  9. Englishinflare

From in- + flare.

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