blare

Etymology

The verb is derived from Late Middle English blaren, bleren, bloren (“to bellow, cry, wail; of a goat: to bleat”), probably from Old English *blǣren, from Middle Dutch blaren, bleren (“to bawl, cry; to shout; to bleat”) (modern Dutch blèren), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”) and ultimately imitative. The noun is derived from the verb. cognates * Low German blaeren, blaren, blarren * Middle High German blêren, blerren (modern German plärren)

verb

1. (transitive)
   1. Often followed by out: of a device such as a loudspeaker or a radio: to produce (music, a sound, etc.) loudly and piercingly.
      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. 2014, Nick Arnold, “Body Breakdowns and Recovery”, in Horrible Science: Body Owner’s Handbook, revised edition, London: Scholastic Children’s Books, page 159
   2. (figurative) To express (ideas, words, etc.) loudly; to proclaim.
2. (intransitive)
   1. To make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet.
      The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.
   2. (archaic except Britain, dialectal) To make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.

noun

1. A loud sound.
   I can hardly hear you over the blare of the radio.
   The screeching of brakes, the monotonous blare of motor horns, the clip-clip of shoes on slippery pavements, the rustling of wet mackintoshes were all part of the great metropolis. 1936, F[rederick] J[oseph] Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney, N.S.W.: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, →OCLC, page 214
2. (figurative) Of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance.
3. (obsolete except Britain, dialectal) A lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.