blare
Plural: blares
Noun
- a loud harsh or strident noise
- A loud sound.
- Of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance.
- A lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.
Verb
Verb Forms: blared, blaring, blares
- To make a loud, harsh sound.
- make a strident sound
- make a loud noise
- "The horns of the taxis blared"
- To play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels.
- To express (ideas, words, etc.) loudly; to proclaim.
- To make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet.
- To make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.
Examples
- I can hardly hear you over the blare of the radio.
- The alarm seemed to BLARE when I accidentally hit the challenge button on Words With Friends.
- The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.
Origin / 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 *blǣren, from Middle Dutch blaren, bleren (“to bawl, cry; to shout; to bleat”) (modern Dutch blèren), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”) and ultimately imitative.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
Low German blaeren, blaren, blarren
Middle High German blêren, blerren (modern German plärren)
Scrabble Score: 7
blare: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordblare: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
blare: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary