Meaning

To play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels..

Definitions by Sense

1. To play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels.
2. To express (ideas, words, etc.) loudly; to proclaim.
3. To make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet.
4. To make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.
5. A loud sound.
6. (figurative) Of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance.
7. (obsolete except British, dialectal) A lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.

Example Sentences

In 2000, a robber held up a bank in San Diego, USA. It seems everyone held their noses rather than sticking their hands up because the man was so smelly! […] Police helicopters blared loudspeaker warnings about the smelly man.

[T]he world, the world, / All ear and eye, with such a stupid heart / To interpret ear and eye, and such a tongue / To blare its own interpretation— […]

The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.

[O]n plains, and under City-walls, innumerable regimental bands blare-off into the Inane, without note from us.

Blazon your mottos of blessing and prayer! / Welcome her, welcome her, all that is ours! / Warble, O bugle, and trumpet, blare! / Flags, flutter out upon turrets and towers!

France, even after 30 years of extraordinary synth, electro and urban pop, is still beaten with a stick marked "Johnny Hallyday" by otherwise sensible journalists. Songs that have taken Europe by storm, from the gloriously bleak Belgian disco of Stromae's Alors on Danse to Sexion d'Assaut's soulful Desole blare from cars everywhere between Lisbon and Lublin but run aground as soon as they hit Dover.

And the kyne wente ſtraight waye vnto Beth Semes vpon one ſtreete, and wente on blearynge, and turned nether to the righte hande ner to the lefte.

The worthies alſo of Moab bleared and cried for very ſorow of their myndes: Wo is my hert for Moabs ſake.

Word Forms

• blares
• blaring
• blared
• blear
• blair
• bleir

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