blur

Object

• distinction: Once a government starts to blur that distinction there is trouble ahead.
• vision: I suppose the pound signs have blurred the organizers vision!
• boundary: City focuses on bridging or blurring the boundaries between these different media.
• edge: His extraordinary Magpie album has been blurring the edges of my road rage for weeks.
• line: Join the boys as they blur the line between work and play and the cameras record every steamy second.
• image: Kate looked up to see the blurred image of a man.

Preposition: at

edge: Again, the dividing line between catering and the food industry is reasonably clear cut although inevitably with some blurring at the edges.

Adjective complement

due: Is it blurred due to wind or did you create the blur?

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: The distinction between a loan and a bond is becoming increasingly blurred.
• somewhat: By now the artifacts are starting to become somewhat blurred.
• slightly: Some things I can remember very vividly, others are slightly blurred.
• deliberately: Here the distinction between poster art and poster design is deliberately blurred.
• temporarily: The effect of these will wear off after a few hours but may temporarily blur your vision preventing you from reading or driving.
• inevitably: However, as the research discussed in the last section suggests, the line between science and policy is inevitably blurred.

Used with why or when

when: Yet, the line between ' myth ' and ' reality ' may become blurred when the subject is approached afresh.

Preposition: of

• distinction: Conclusion Cumulatively, the blurring of distinctions in these ten areas create a substantial concern with the sermon.
• boundary: The convergence of digital technologies means there is now a blurring of media boundaries.
• vision: The drops cause blurring of vision, which may last for up to four hours.
• division: The blurring of the division between regulation and accounting is very worrying.
• line: Q: Regarding Guru Dutt, and the first blurring of the line between commercial and new wave cinema.