Past tense and past participle of blare; made a loud, harsh sound or announced something loudly.
From blare (likely from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German blaren 'to cry') + -ed (past tense marker). The verb blare entered English around the 1500s.
Sound words like 'blare' are onomatopoeia, and they're surprisingly controversial in linguistics because they're not truly imitative—a siren doesn't actually sound like 'blare' to Japanese speakers, who hear it differently, showing that even sounds we think are universal are filtered through our language's phonetic patterns.
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