How to pronounce“blare”in English
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Definitions of “blare”
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.”
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— […]”
A loud sound.
“I can hardly hear you over the blare of the radio.”
Of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance.
“Archivist Camus, an Old-Constituent appointed Archivist, he and the Ancient Twelve, amid blare of military pomp and clangour, enter, bearing the divine Book: and President and all Legislative Senators, laying their hand on the same, successively take the Oath, with cheers and heart-effusion, universal three-times-three.”
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