blare

[Blare]

To blare means to crank up the volume really LOUDly. Blare is what you do with your dance music if you want your neighbors to hate you.

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To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.

Noun
a loud harsh or strident noise

Verb
make a strident sound; "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone"

Verb
make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared"


v. i.
To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.

v. t.
To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.

n.
The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing.


Blare

Blare , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blared ; p. pr. & vb. n. Blaring.] [OE. blaren, bloren, to cry, woop; cf. G. pl'84rren to bleat, D. blaren to bleat, cry, weep. Prob. an imitative word, but cf. also E. blast. Cf. Blore.] To sound loudly and somewhat harshly. "The trumpet blared." Tennyson.

Blare

Blare, v. t. To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.
To blare its own interpretation.

Blare

Blare, n. The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing.
With blare of bugle, clamor of men.
His ears are stunned with the thunder's blare.

To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.

To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.

The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing.

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Usage Examples

Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

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