blare
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Is blare a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "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."transitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "[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— […]"figurativelytransitive
3. (intransitive)Examples: "The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache."; "[O]n plains, and under City-walls, innumerable regimental bands blare-off into the Inane, without note from us."; "Blazon your mottos of blessing and prayer! / Welcome her, welcome her, all that is ours! / Warble, O bugle, and trumpet, blare! / Flags, flutter out upon turrets and towers!"intransitive
4. (intransitive)Examples: "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."; "The worthies alſo of Moab bleared and cried for very ſorow of their myndes: Wo is my hert for Moabs ſake."; "Behold, at eve, the herd returning home / From fruitful meads vvhere they have grazed their fill, / No longer in the ſtalls contain'd, they ruſh / VVith many a friſk abroad, and, blaring oft, / VVith one conſent all dance their dams around, […]"dialectalintransitive
noun (English)
1. (figurative) Of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance.Examples: "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."; "And we came to the Isle of Fire: we were lured by the light from afar, / For the peak sent up one league of fire to the Northern Star; / Lured by the glare and the blare, but scarcely could stand upright, / For the whole isle shudder'd and shook like a man in a mortal affright; […]"countablefigurativelyuncountable
2. (obsolete except British, dialectal) A lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.Examples: "The herds [of bison], in their flight from the burning pastures had rushed over the bed of the watercourse—scaled the slopes of the banks. […] One cry alone more wild than their own savage blare pierced the reek through which the Brute Hurricane swept."countabledialectaluncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary