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blare

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of blare

loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound

  • the blare of horns arising from the long line of cars behind him did nothing to help the motorist get his car started again
Synonyms of blare

babel, bluster, bowwow, brawl, bruit [archaic], cacophony, chatter, clamor, clangor, decibel(s), din, discordance, katzenjammer, noise, racket, rattle, roar
Words Related to blare

discord, dissonance

commotion, furor, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, rumpus, tumult, uproar

clatter, jangle

bang, blast, boom, clap, crack, crash
Near Antonyms of blare

calm, hush, lull

quietude, serenity, tranquillity (or tranquility)
Antonyms of blare

quiet, silence, silentness, still, stillness

blare

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of blare

to make known openly or publicly

  • was it really necessary to blare that private quarrel to the whole world?
Synonyms of blare

advertise, announce, annunciate, blaze, blazon, broadcast, declare, enunciate, flash, give out, herald, placard, post, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, release, sound, trumpet
Words Related to blare

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
Phrases Synonymous with blare

beat the drum (for or about), run with
Near Antonyms of blare

conceal, hush (up), silence, suppress, withhold

recall, recant, retract, revoke

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