BLARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blare mean? 

• BLARE (noun)
  The noun BLARE has 1 sense:

1. a loud harsh or strident noise

  Familiarity information: BLARE used as a noun is very rare.

• BLARE (verb)
  The verb BLARE has 2 senses:

1. make a strident sound

2. make a loud noise

  Familiarity information: BLARE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loud harsh or strident noise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

blare; blaring; cacophony; clamor; din

Hypernyms ("blare" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Derivation:

blare (make a strident sound)

• BLARE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they blare    ... he / she / it blares   
Past simple: blared   
Past participle: blared   
-ing form: blaring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a strident sound

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

blare; blast

Context example:

She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone

Hypernyms (to "blare" is one way to...):

make noise; noise; resound (emit a noise)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

blare (a loud harsh or strident noise)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a loud noise

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

beep; blare; claxon; honk; toot

Context example:

The horns of the taxis blared

Hypernyms (to "blare" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blare"):

tootle (play (a musical instrument) casually)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence examples:

Cars blare in the streets
The streets blare with cars

 Context examples 

Mars is on the way to help you, which is the equivalent to having the cavalry arriving on horseback with bugles blaring.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Another five minutes of wild galloping over the plain, and they were all back in their gorge, while their pursuers fell back before the rolling of drums and blare of trumpets, which seemed to proclaim that the whole army of the prince was about to emerge from the mountain passes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As they passed over the drawbridge, Alleyne marked the gleam of arms in the embrasures to right and left, and they had scarce set foot upon the causeway ere a hoarse blare burst from a bugle, and, with screech of hinge and clank of chain, the ponderous bridge swung up into the air, drawn by unseen hands.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus the three horses and their two riders rode swiftly to the lists, and it was the blare of the trumpet sounded by the squire as his lord rode into the arena which had broken in upon the prize-giving and drawn away the attention and interest of the spectators.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)