blare

/blɛər/

/blɛ/

Other forms: blared; blaring; blares

To blare means to crank up the volume — really LOUDly. Blare is what you do with your dance music if you want your neighbors to hate you.

The verb blare has ties to the Middle Dutch word bleren, meaning "to bleat, cry, bawl, shout." Blare describes a loud, harsh, unpleasant sound, something you associate with car horns on a busy city street at rush hour, sirens on a police car, or even music played at an unnecessarily high volume. A club is allowed to blare its dance music. But if you blare music at home? Your neighbors would probably consider that too loud.

Definitions of blare

1. verb

   make a loud noise
   “The horns of the taxis blared”

   synonyms: beep, claxon, honk, toot

   types:

   tootle

   play (a musical instrument) casually

   type of:

   go, sound

   make a certain noise or sound
2. verb

   make a strident sound
   synonyms: blast

   type of:

   make noise, noise, resound

   emit a noise
3. noun

   a loud harsh or strident noise
   synonyms: blaring, cacophony, clamor, clamour, din

   type of:

   noise

   sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)