blare
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
noun
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a loud, raucous noise.
The blare of the band made conversation impossible.
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glaring intensity of light or color.
A blare of sunlight flooded the room as she opened the shutters.
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fanfare; flourish; ostentation; flamboyance.
a new breakfast cereal proclaimed with all the blare of a Hollywood spectacle.
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Eastern New England. the bawl of a calf.
verb
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to sound loudly and harshly
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to proclaim loudly and sensationally
noun
Other Word Forms
Conjugated Forms
Present
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has blaredperfect 3rd person singular
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have blaredperfect
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are blaringprogressive
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am blaringprogressive 1st person singular
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has been blaringperfect progressive 3rd person singular
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have been blaringperfect progressive
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is blaringprogressive 3rd person singular
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blaressingular 3rd person
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blaringparticiple
Past
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had blaredperfect
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were blaringprogressive plural
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was blaringprogressive singular
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blaredparticiple
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had been blaringperfect progressive
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blaredsimple
Future
Etymology
Origin of blare
1400–50; late Middle English bleren; akin to Middle Dutch blaren, Middle Low German blarren, Middle High German blerren ( German plärren )
Explanation
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. The verb blare has ties to the Middle Dutch word bleren, meaning "to bleat, cry, bawl, shout." Blare describes a loud, harsh, unpleasant sound, something you associate with car horns on a busy city street at rush hour, sirens on a police car, or even music played at an unnecessarily high volume. A club is allowed to blare its dance music. But if you blare music at home? Your neighbors would probably consider that too loud.
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