blaring

«blaring» in Mova's school dictionary: Making a very loud, harsh, unpleasant noise — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb, -ing form of blare (blare, blares, blared, blaring); adjective (blaring)

meaning for a pupil

1) Making a very loud, harsh, unpleasant noise. tree →

2) (adjective) Very loud: blaring music, blaring horns. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and everyday life: blaring music next door, blaring sirens of ambulances and fire engines, blaring car horns in traffic. It tells the reader the noise is too loud or alarming. Safety: blaring alarms mean you must leave the building calmly.

examples

• Music was blaring from my brother's room. tree →
• The fire alarm was blaring, so we lined up outside. tree →
• Sirens blaring, the ambulance raced past. tree →
• The TV was blaring all evening. tree →
• Car horns were blaring in the traffic jam. tree →
• Turn down that blaring radio! tree →
• On the seventh day they all started, amidst thunderous salutes from the ramparts of the city, and much dust, and cheering, and blaring of trumpets. tree →

note

Base verb: blare. «Blaring» is stronger than «loud»; it suggests unpleasant noise. Often used with music, horns, sirens, alarms, TV.

In the corpora

• Loud noise near a pet's bed, like drums or a blaring telly, can make it avoid you.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «blaring» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.