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Definition of blare verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

blare

verb
 
/bleə(r)/
 
/bler/
[intransitive, transitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they blare
 
/bleə(r)/
 
/bler/
he / she / it blares
 
/bleəz/
 
/blerz/
past simple blared
 
/bleəd/
 
/blerd/
past participle blared
 
/bleəd/
 
/blerd/
-ing form blaring
 
/ˈbleərɪŋ/
 
/ˈblerɪŋ/
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  1. to make a loud unpleasant noise
    • police cars with lights flashing and sirens blaring
    • blare out Music blared out from the open window.
    • blare something (out) The radio was blaring (out) rock music.
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryBlare is used with these nouns as the subject:
    • headline
    • horn
    • loudspeaker
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    Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘roar, bellow’): from Middle Dutch blaren, bleren, or Low German blaren, of imitative origin. Current senses date from the late 18th cent.
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