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verb

Blur v. t. (past & past part. blurred; pres. part. blurring)

To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink. "But time hath nothing blurred those lines of favor Which then he wore."

To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken. "Her eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare."

To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation. "Sarcasms may eclipse thine own, But can not blur my lost renown."

Synonyms: To spot; blot; disfigure; stain; sully.

adjective

blurred adj. Out of focus; not sharply defined.

Synonyms: bleary, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, muzzy.

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Etymology of 'Blurred'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blurred" Quotes from Famous Books

... the whole thing was that not one of them had realized at the time, or ever recalled since, that Old Denny's eyes were sane when he wept that night and blurred with madness when he cursed. But then, too, that would have smashed the dramatic element of the whole tale to flinters. They never missed a scene or a sob, however, in the re-telling, and they always ended it with an ominous tilt of the ...

— Once to Every Man • Larry Evans

... the greater disaster befell. It was a thick, drizzly, muggy night, when the foreground of one's perspective was blurred by the murk and when there just naturally was not any background at all. Down by the Richland House a strange white man wearing a hand-colored mustache and a tiger-claw watch charm hailed Red Hoss. ...

— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb

... their shadows flickered. It was cold. I thought I saw my sister coming in with my supper, but I remembered at once that she was ill at Radish's, and it seemed strange to me that I should have climbed the fence and be lying in the cold shed. My mind was blurred and filled ...

— The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories • Anton Tchekoff

... vines and briars, we succeeded, after many fruitless attempts, in gaining the water's edge. There was no place to cross and the current was far too swift to attempt jumping, so we had to turn back. While deliberating on the right path, a little girl, looking very wretched, with blurred face and torn clothes, came round a corner, and asked us if we had seen a lamb anywhere. We were sorry we hadn't, very sorry indeed; all we could do was to endeavour to recollect a rhyme and adapt it to her case, that we learnt in the nursery when we were something under fifteen, and, ...

— Twixt France and Spain • E. Ernest Bilbrough

... delivered a shrill-voiced, tear-blurred ultimatum to Brit. Either he must sell out and move to town, or she would take the children and leave him. Of towns Brit knew nothing except the post-office, saloon, cheap restaurant side,—and a barber shop where a fellow could get a shave ...

— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower

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