单词 | blare |
释义 | blare (once / 2759 pages) vn 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. WORD FAMILYblare: blared, blares, blaring+/blaring: blarings USAGE EXAMPLESAt 5:39 a.m., more than a dozen tow trucks, headlights on, paraded down Colorado, horns blaring. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) It was in her final post that the crackle of gunfire is heard as the music blares. Time(Dec 23, 2016) Headlines blaring “VILE” and “No Justice for Tragic Norma” followed. Seattle Times(Dec 15, 2016) 1v make a loud noise The horns of the taxis blared Syn|Hypo|Hyper beep, claxon, honk, toot tootle play (a musical instrument) casually go, sound make a certain noise or sound 2v make a strident sound Syn|Hyper blast make noise, noise, resound emit a noise 3n a loud harsh or strident noise Syn|Hyper blaring, cacophony, clamor, clamour, din noise sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) |
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