blared

Verb

blare (third-person singular simple present blares, present participle blaring, simple past and past participle blared)

1. (transitive, Often followed by out) To play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels.
   • 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, →ISBN, page 159
2. (figuratively, transitive) To express (ideas, words, etc.) loudly; to proclaim.
   • [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— […]1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 196
3. (intransitive) To make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet.
   • The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.
4. (dialectal, intransitive, archaic except UK) To make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.
   • 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.1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, I. Kynges [1...

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