inflare

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See also: inflaré

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ flare.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To flare inward.
    • 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.
    • 2001, Sharon Giammatteo, Integrative Manual Therapy for the Upper and Lower Extremities, revised edition, volume II, North Atlantic Books, page 148:
      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.
    • 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 …

Antonyms

Asturian

Verb

inflare

  1. first-person singular pluperfect indicative of inflar
  2. third-person singular pluperfect indicative of inflar
  3. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of inflar
  4. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of inflar

Latin

Verb

īnflāre

  1. inflection of īnflō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Spanish

Verb

inflare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of inflar