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blare

[blair] verb, blared, blar⋅ing, noun
–verb (used without object)
1. to emit a loud, raucous sound: The trumpets blared as the procession got under way.
–verb (used with object)
2. to sound loudly; proclaim noisily: We sat there horrified as the radio blared the awful news.
–noun
3. a loud, raucous noise: The blare of the band made conversation impossible.
4. glaring intensity of light or color: A blare of sunlight flooded the room as she opened the shutters.
5. fanfare; flourish; ostentation; flamboyance: a new breakfast cereal proclaimed with all the blare of a Hollywood spectacle.
6. Eastern New England. the bawl of a calf.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME bleren; akin to MD blaren, MLG blarren, MHG blerren (G plärren)


1, 3. blast, bellow, roar, clang, clamor; screech, honk.
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blare   (blâr)   
v.   blared, blar·ing, blares

v.   intr.
To sound loudly and stridently: a stereo blaring in the next apartment.
v.   tr.
  1. To cause to sound loudly and stridently: Don't blare the stereo.

  2. To proclaim loudly and flamboyantly: headlines blaring the scandal.

n.  
  1. A loud, strident noise.

  2. Flamboyance.


[Middle English bleren.]
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Word Origin & History

blare 
c.1390, bleren "to wail," possibly from an unrecorded O.E. *blæren, or from M.Du. bleren "to bleat, cry, bawl, shout." Probably echoic, either way.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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