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Blare vs Bluster - What's the difference?

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Blare is a related term of bluster.


As nouns the difference between blare and bluster

is that blare is (usually singular) a loud sound while bluster is pompous, officious talk.

As verbs the difference between blare and bluster

is that blare is to make a loud sound while bluster is to speak or protest loudly.

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.
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  • To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.
  • * Tennyson
    • To blare its own interpretation.

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    bluster

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Pompous, officious talk.
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    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster .}}
  • A gust of wind.
  • Fitful noise and violence.

    • Synonyms

    * (pompous talk) bombast

    Verb

  • To speak or protest loudly.
    • When confronted by opposition his reaction was to bluster , which often cowed the meek.
  • To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.
  • * Burke
    • Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants.
  • * Sir T. More
    • He bloweth and blustereth out his abominable blasphemy.
  • * Fuller
    • As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands.
  • To blow in strong or sudden gusts.
  • * Milton
    • And ever-threatening storms / Of Chaos blustering round.

    Derived terms

    * blusterer * blustering * blusterous * blustery

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