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Blur means to smudge or make something indistinct or hazy.
(verb)An example of blur is for the sun to block a driver's vision.
The definition of a blur is something being unclear or smudged, or something that is unclear in a person's mind.
(noun)An example of a blur is an event that a person does not remember well.
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See blur in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb, intransitive verb blurred, blurring
- to smear or stain without obliterating; blot; smudge
- to make or become hazy or indistinct in outline or shape
- to make or become dim or dull
Origin: 16th c.; ? akin to blear
noun
- the state of being blurred
- an obscuring stain or blot
- anything indistinct or hazy to the sight or the mind
- Archaic a moral stain
Related Forms:
- blurry adjective blurrier, blurriest
- blurriness noun
See blur in American Heritage Dictionary 4
verb blurred blurred, blur·ring, blurs verb, transitive
- To make indistinct and hazy in outline or appearance; obscure.
- To smear or stain; smudge.
- To lessen the perception of; dim: “For street children . . . drugs offer the chance to blur their hopeless poverty” (Alma Guillermoprieto).
- To become indistinct.
- To make smudges or stains by smearing.
- A smear or blot; a smudge.
- Something that is hazy and indistinct to the sight or mind.
Origin:
Origin: Probably akin to Middle English bleren, to blear
.Related Forms:
- blurˈri·ness noun
- blurˈry adjective
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