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blaring

verb (used without object), blared, blar·ing.

to emit a loud, raucous sound: The trumpets blared as the procession got under way.

verb (used with object), blared, blar·ing.

to sound loudly; proclaim noisily: We sat there horrified as the radio blared the awful news.

noun

a loud, raucous noise: The blare of the band made conversation impossible.
glaring intensity of light or color: A blare of sunlight flooded the room as she opened the shutters.
fanfare; flourish; ostentation; flamboyance: a new breakfast cereal proclaimed with all the blare of a Hollywood spectacle.
Eastern New England. the bawl of a calf.

verb

to sound loudly and harshly
to proclaim loudly and sensationally

noun

a loud and usually harsh or grating noise

adj.

mid-15c., from present participle of blare. Of things other than sounds, from 1866.

late 14c., bleren “to wail,” possibly from an unrecorded Old English *blæren, or from Middle Dutch bleren “to bleat, cry, bawl, shout.” Probably echoic, either way. Related: Blared; blaring. As a noun from 1809, from the verb.