/blɛə/, /blɛ(ə)ɹ/, /bleː/
- transitiveTo play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels.
“In 2000, a robber held up a bank in San Diego, USA. It seems everyone held their noses rather than sticking their hands up because the man was so smelly! […] Police helicopters blared loudspeaker warn”
- figuratively, transitiveTo express (ideas, words, etc.) loudly; to proclaim.
“[T]he world, the world, / All ear and eye, with such a stupid heart / To interpret ear and eye, and such a tongue / To blare its own interpretation— […]”
- intransitiveTo make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet.
“The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.”
“[O]n plains, and under City-walls, innumerable regimental bands blare-off into the Inane, without note from us.”
“Blazon your mottos of blessing and prayer! / Welcome her, welcome her, all that is ours! / Warble, O bugle, and trumpet, blare! / Flags, flutter out upon turrets and towers!”
- dialectal, intransitiveTo make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.
“And the kyne wente ſtraight waye vnto Beth Semes vpon one ſtreete, and wente on blearynge, and turned nether to the righte hande ner to the lefte.”
“The worthies alſo of Moab bleared and cried for very ſorow of their myndes: Wo is my hert for Moabs ſake.”
“Behold, at eve, the herd returning home / From fruitful meads vvhere they have grazed their fill, / No longer in the ſtalls contain'd, they ruſh / VVith many a friſk abroad, and, blaring oft, / VVith ”
- countable, uncountableA loud sound.
“I can hardly hear you over the blare of the radio.”
“[T]heir host of eagles flew / Past the Pyrenean pines, / Follow'd up in valley and glen / With blare of bugle, clamour of men, / Roll of cannon and clash of arms, / And England pouring on her foes.”
“They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.”
- countable, figuratively, uncountableOf colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance.
“Archivist Camus, an Old-Constituent appointed Archivist, he and the Ancient Twelve, amid blare of military pomp and clangour, enter, bearing the divine Book: and President and all Legislative Senators”
“And we came to the Isle of Fire: we were lured by the light from afar, / For the peak sent up one league of fire to the Northern Star; / Lured by the glare and the blare, but scarcely could stand upri”
- countable, dialectal, uncountableA lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.
“The herds [of bison], in their flight from the burning pastures had rushed over the bed of the watercourse—scaled the slopes of the banks. […] One cry alone more wild than their own savage blare pierc”
Formsblares(present, singular, third-person) · blaring(participle, present) · blared(participle, past) · blared(past) · blear(alternative) · blair(alternative) · bleir(alternative, Scotland) · blares(plural)