Blares

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To make loud and abrasive sounds that can create disturbance
2. Emits a powerful and penetrating noise that can dominate an environment
3. Sends out a strong and offensive sound that is hard to ignore

Etymology: "Blares" is simply the third-person singular present form of "blare", so its history is the history of the verb. That verb goes back to Late Middle English "blaren", "bleren" or "bloren", meaning to bellow, cry or wail, and in the case of a goat, to bleat. Its ancestry is probably an Old English form, possibly reconstructed as "blǣran", which may trace back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning to bleat or cry. The word is imitative, built to sound like the noise it describes, and it has close relatives across the Germanic languages. Middle Dutch had "blaren" and "bleren" meaning to bawl or shout, and modern Dutch keeps "blèren". German has its own cousin in "plärren", which still means to whine or blubber, and the same family appears in Low German, Saterland Frisian and West Frisian. The sense of a loud, harsh noise has stayed remarkably constant, from the bleating of animals to the blast of trumpets and radios.

Synonyms: shouts, blasts, cackles, yells, trumpets

Antonyms: whispers, muffles, hushes, silences, quiets