Blaring

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blare \Blare\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blared}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Blaring}.] [OE. blaren, bloren, to cry, woop; cf. G.
     pl[aum]rren to bleat, D. blaren to bleat, cry, weep. Prob. an
     imitative word, but cf. also E. blast. Cf. {Blore}.]
     To sound loudly and somewhat harshly. "The trumpet blared."
     --Tennyson.


     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  blaring \blar"ing\ adj.
     harshly or unpleasantly loud (in sound intensity); -- used
     mostly of electronic entertainment devices, such as TV,
     radio, or phonograph.
     [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  blaring
       adj : unpleasantly loud and penetrating; "the blaring noise of
             trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music
             from his car radio" [syn: {blasting}]
       n : a loud harsh or strident noise [syn: {blare}, {cacophony}, {clamor},
            {din}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "blaring":
     atmospherics, blasting, blatant, blatting, blind spot, blustering,
     boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, clamant, clamorous,
     clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, crawling, creeping,
     drift, earsplitting, fade-out, fading, interference, mafficking,
     noise, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, piercing, rackety, reception,
     rip-roaring, roaring, rowdy, static, stentorian, stentorious,
     strepitant, strepitous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious,
     vociferous