blare
Americanverb (used without object)
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blares,
present (3rd person singular)
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blared,
past participle, past
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blaring
present participle
verb (used with object)
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blares,
present (3rd person singular)
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blared,
past participle, past
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blaring
present participle
noun
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blares
plural
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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
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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blaresimple
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blaressimple
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have blaredperfect
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has blaredperfect
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am blaringprogressive
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are blaringprogressive
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is blaringprogressive
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have been blaringperfect progressive
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has been blaringperfect progressive
Past
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blaredsimple
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had blaredperfect
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was blaringprogressive
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were blaringprogressive
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had been blaringperfect progressive
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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Example Sentences
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The noise is deafening: Horns blare, whistles pierce the piercing cold.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026
Mexico’s culture, he wanted to blare, was born long ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
Streaming services are now required to turn the dial down on commercial advertisements that blare louder than providers’ content under legislation signed into law Monday by California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
A severity descriptor on that alert sent it to weather radios and the nation’s Wireless Emergency Alerts system, which blasts weather warnings to cellphones to blare an alarm.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025
“Have you even considered —” but his words were cut off by the blare of an alarm.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
"It blares 'hands not detected' when I'm not recording properly," said Sriramyachandra, who sends recordings via a special app to the AI data company Objectways.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Loud pop and rock music blares down the entire block, punctuated by the odd cheer and whoop from spectators.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
“This story promises to have the happiest ending you will ever hear,” blares a propaganda loudspeaker, one of the novel’s narrators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
Across the street from the exit, a mural blares a message of defiance:
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
Drowning out all other noise is the music that blares from many sidewalk shops of the cassette vendors.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Children lined up for junior rodeo games just a few feet away from Border Patrol officers, as live country music blared from a massive stage.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Sirens blared, horns honked, and church bells pealed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
"Is Netanyahu real or AI?" an internet headline blared, pointing to a video that supposedly showed the Israeli prime minister with six fingers.
From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026
Car horns blared and Persian music pumped through open windows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2026
Announcements blared from speakers in crisp British accents.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
And when I consider airports, I blot the memory of the woman next to me at Gate 66 who insists on blaring a video call at maximum volume.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
In fact, this rager was Hello Kitty–themed—with trippy visuals of the fluffy cat blaring behind the DJs—and was hosted by the Dave & Buster’s in Ontario, California, just over 35 miles outside Los Angeles.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
In a blaring nightclub in wartime Myanmar, partied-out revellers doze until dawn by the dancefloor, wary of journeying home despite the end of a post-coup curfew.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
He liked to play loudly, for many hours at a time, improvising ceaseless and whipsawing sagas of frenetic melodies and emphatic blaring and screeching—it was a whole lot of sound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
He tossed his jacket in the backseat, and drove with the top down and the radio blaring.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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