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/ |
- 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
- …
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.Definitions on the go
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