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blare

verb
/blɛə/UK/blɛ(ə)ɹ/US/bleː/

Etymology

The verb is derived from Late Middle English blaren, bleren, bloren (“to bellow, cry, wail; of a goat: to bleat”), probably from Old English *blǣran, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”) and ultimately imitative. Related to Middle Dutch blaren, bleren (“to bawl, cry; to shout; to bleat”) (modern Dutch blèren). The noun is derived from the verb. Cognates German Low German blaren, blarren Middle High German blêren, blerren (modern German plärren) Saterland Frisian blärje West Frisian blearje

  1. derived from *bʰleh₁-✻ — “to bleat, cry”
  2. inherited from *blǣran✻
  3. inherited from blaren

Definitions

  1. To play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels.

    • In 2000, a robber held up a bank in San Diego, USA. It seems everyone held their noses rather than sticking their hands up because the man was so smelly! […] Police helicopters blared loudspeaker warnings about the smelly man.

  2. To express (ideas, words, etc.) loudly

    To express (ideas, words, etc.) loudly; to proclaim.

    • [T]he world, the world, / All ear and eye, with such a stupid heart / To interpret ear and eye, and such a tongue / To blare its own interpretation— […]

  3. To make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet.

    • The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.
    • [O]n plains, and under City-walls, innumerable regimental bands blare-off into the Inane, without note from us.
    • Blazon your mottos of blessing and prayer! / Welcome her, welcome her, all that is ours! / Warble, O bugle, and trumpet, blare! / Flags, flutter out upon turrets and towers!
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. To make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.

      • And the kyne wente ſtraight waye vnto Beth Semes vpon one ſtreete, and wente on blearynge, and turned nether to the righte hande ner to the lefte.
      • The worthies alſo of Moab bleared and cried for very ſorow of their myndes: Wo is my hert for Moabs ſake.

    2. A loud sound.

      • I can hardly hear you over the blare of the radio.
      • [T]heir host of eagles flew / Past the Pyrenean pines, / Follow'd up in valley and glen / With blare of bugle, clamour of men, / Roll of cannon and clash of arms, / And England pouring on her foes.
      • They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.

    3. Of colour, light, or some other quality

      Of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance.

    4. A lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA