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Blare vs Caterwauling - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between blare and caterwauling

is that blare is a loud sound while caterwauling is a sound that caterwauls.

As verbs the difference between blare and caterwauling

is that blare is to make a loud sound while caterwauling is present participle of lang=en.

blare

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (usually singular) A loud sound.
  • I can hardly hear you over the blare of the radio.
  • *'>citation
  • Dazzling, often garish, brilliance.
  • Verb

  • To make a loud sound.
  • The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=December 14 , author=Andrew Khan , title=How isolationist is British pop? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=France, even after 30 years of extraordinary synth, electro and urban pop, is still beaten with a stick marked "Johnny Hallyday" by otherwise sensible journalists. Songs that have taken Europe by storm, from the gloriously bleak Belgian disco of Stromae's Alors on Danse to Sexion d'Assaut's soulful Desole blare from cars everywhere between Lisbon and Lublin but run aground as soon as they hit Dover. }}
  • To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.
  • * Tennyson
  • To blare its own interpretation.

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    caterwauling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sound that caterwauls.
  • * Eleanor H. Porter, Oh, Money! Money!
  • Now, I like a good tune what is a tune; but them caterwaulings and dirges that that chap Gray plays on that fiddle of his—gorry, Mr. Smith, I'd rather hear the old barn door at home squeak any day.