blare

¹blare

verb \ˈbler\

blaredblar·ing

Definition of BLARE

intransitive verb

: to sound loud and strident <radios blaring>

transitive verb

1

: to sound or utter raucously <sat blaring the car horn>

2

: to proclaim flamboyantly <headlines blared his defeat>

Examples of BLARE

1. Rock music blared through the store from the loudspeakers.
2. Loudspeakers blared rock music through the store.

Origin of BLARE

Middle English bleren; akin to Middle Dutch blēren to shout

First Known Use: 15th century

Related to BLARE

Synonyms: advertise, annunciate, announce, blaze, blazon, broadcast, declare, enunciate, flash, give out, herald, placard, post, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, release, sound, trumpet

Related Words: bark, call (off or out), cry; bill, billboard, bulletin, gazette [chiefly British]; knell, ring, toll; blurb, feature, pitch, plug, promote, puff; disseminate, spread; disclose, divulge, introduce, kithe [chiefly Scottish], manifest, report, reveal, show; advise, apprise, hand down, inform, notify; communicate, impart, intimate

Near Antonyms: conceal, hush (up), silence, suppress, withhold; recall, recant, retract, revoke

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Rhymes with BLARE

air, Ayr, bare, bear, Blair, care, chair, chare, dare, Dare, e'er, ere, err, eyre, fair, fare, flair, flare, glair, glare, hair, hare, Herr, heir, lair, mare, ne'er, pair, pare, pear, prayer, rare, rear, scare, share, snare, spare, square, stair, stare, swear, tare, tear, their, there, vair, ware, wear, weir, where, yare