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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.
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.]

Blare

Blare\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blared; p. pr. & vb. n. Blaring.] [OE. blaren, bloren, to cry, woop; cf. G. pl["a]rren 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. --Tennyson.

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. --Tennyson.

His ears are stunned with the thunder's blare. --J. R. Drake.
Language Translation for : blare
Spanish: sonar muy fuerte, bramar, berrear,
German: schmettern,
Japanese: 鳴り響く

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.
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