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Knell vs Blare - What's the difference?

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Knell is a related term of blare.


As verbs the difference between knell and blare

is that knell is to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll while blare is to make a loud sound.

As nouns the difference between knell and blare

is that knell is the sound of a bell knelling; a toll while blare is (usually singular) a loud sound.

knell

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee
  • * , The New Timon. A romance of London , Chapter 86
    • Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, / Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, alone .
  • to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.
  • * 1750 , , Line 1
    • The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

    Derived terms

    * death knell

    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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