Blare \Blare\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blared; p. pr. & vb. n.
Blaring.] [OE. blaren, bloren, to cry, woop; cf. G.
pl[aum]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.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
blaring \blar"ing\ adj.
harshly or unpleasantly loud (in sound intensity); -- used
mostly of electronic entertainment devices, such as TV,
radio, or phonograph.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
blaring
adj : unpleasantly loud and penetrating; "the blaring noise of
trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music
from his car radio" [syn: blasting]
n : a loud harsh or strident noise [syn: blare, cacophony, clamor,
din]
WordNet (r) 2.0
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "blaring":
atmospherics, blasting, blatant, blatting, blind spot, blustering,
boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, clamant, clamorous,
clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, crawling, creeping,
drift, earsplitting, fade-out, fading, interference, mafficking,
noise, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, piercing, rackety, reception,
rip-roaring, roaring, rowdy, static, stentorian, stentorious,
strepitant, strepitous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious,
vociferous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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