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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Blare Blare, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blared; p. pr. & vb. n. Blaring.] [OE. blaren, bloren, to cry, woop; cf. G. pl["a]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.

Moby Thesaurus

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