Blare vs Howl - What's the difference?
blare | howl |
(usually singular) A loud sound.
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Dazzling, often garish, brilliance.
To make a loud sound.
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To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.
* Tennyson
The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.
A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
* Drayton
* Shakespeare
To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
* Bible, Isaiah xiii. 6
To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
* Sir Walter Scott
To utter with outcry.
As nouns the difference between blare and howl
is that blare is a loud sound while howl is the protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.As verbs the difference between blare and howl
is that blare is to make a loud sound while howl is to utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.blare
English
Noun
(en noun)- I can hardly hear you over the blare of the radio.
Verb
- The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.
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- To blare its own interpretation.
Anagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- And dogs in corners set them down to howl .
- Methought a legion of foul fiends / Environ'd me about, and howled in my ears.
- Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand.
- Wild howled the wind.
- to howl derision
