Blur

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To make indistinct and hazy in outline or appearance; obscure.
  • v. To smear or stain; smudge.
  • v. To lessen the perception of; dim: "For street children . . . drugs offer the chance to blur their hopeless poverty” ( Alma Guillermoprieto).
  • verb-intransitive. To become indistinct.
  • verb-intransitive. To make smudges or stains by smearing.
  • n. A smear or blot; a smudge.
  • n. Something that is hazy and indistinct to the sight or mind.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
  • v. To smear, stain or smudge.
  • v. To become indistinct.
  • n. A smear, smudge or blot
  • n. Something that appears hazy or indistinct
  • n. A moral stain or blot.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused.
  • v. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
  • v. To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
  • n. That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.
  • n. A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision.
  • n. A moral stain or blot.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To obscure or sully (a thing) with something which detracts from its fairness or beauty.
  • To sully; stain; blemish: as, to blur one's reputation.
  • To obscure without quite effacing; render indistinct; confuse and bedim, as the outlines of a figure.
  • To dim the perception or susceptibility of; make dull or insensible to impression: as, blurred eyesight; to blur the judgment.
  • To make blurs in writing.
  • n. A smudge or smear, such as that made by brushing writing or painting before it is dry; a blot which partially defaces or obscures.
  • n. Figuratively, a blot, stain, or injury affecting character, reputation, and the like.
  • n. A blurred condition; a dim, confused appearance; indistinctness.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a hazy or indistinct representation
  • v. become vague or indistinct
  • v. make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
  • v. make dim or indistinct
  • v. make a smudge on; soil by smudging
  • v. to make less distinct or clear
  • v. become glassy; lose clear vision
  • Verb Form
    blurred    blurring    blurs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Unknown
    blear    dimness    indistinctness    cloudy   
    Cross Reference
    smear    stain    sully    to blur over    to blur out   
    Variant
    blurred    blurring   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    blot    sully    disfigure    stain    spot    dim    darken    smear    blear   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Burr    Fleur    Fur    Kerr    Monsieur    Shir    Sir    Spur    Thur    Ur   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    haze    shimmer    swirl    glimmer    sheen    streak    speck    blotch    radiance    blob