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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blur \Blur\ (bl[^u]r), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Blurred} (bl[^u]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blurring}.] [Prob. of same origin as blear. See {Blear}.]
1. 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. --Shak.
2. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
Her eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare. --J. R. Drake.
3. To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
Sarcasms may eclipse thine own, But can not blur my lost renown. --Hudibras.
Syn: To spot; blot; disfigure; stain; sully.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
blurred \blurred\ (bl[^u]rd), adjective out of focus; not sharply defined.
Syn: bleary, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, muzzy. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
blur
noun: a hazy or indistinct representation; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz" [syn: {fuzz}]
verb
1: become glassy; lose clear vision; "Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep" [syn: {film over}, {glaze over}]
2: to make less distinct or clear; "The haze blurs the hills" [ant: {focus}]
3: make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions" [syn: {confuse}, {obscure}, {obnubilate}]
4: make a smudge on; soil by smudging [syn: {smear}, {smudge}, {smutch}]
5: make dim or indistinct; "The drug blurs my vision" [syn: {blear}] [ant: {focus}]
6: become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred" [syn: {dim}, {slur}] [ant: {focus}] [also: {blurring}, {blurred}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
blurred
adjective
1: indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes" [syn: {bleary}, {blurry}, {foggy}, {fuzzy}, {hazy}, {muzzy}]
2: unclear in form or expression; "the blurred aims of the group"; "sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded"- H.G.Wells [syn: {clouded}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
blurred See {blur}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "blurred": aleatoric, aleatory, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, baggy, blear, bleared, bleary, blobby, blurry, breathy, broad, chance, chancy, chaotic, characterless, choked, choking, confused, croaking, dark, dim, disordered, disorderly, drawling, drawly, dysphonic, faint, featureless, feeble, filmy, foggy, formless, fuzzy, general, guttural, half-seen, half-visible, harsh, hawking, hazy, hit-or-miss, hoarse, ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, inarticulate, inchoate, incoherent, inconspicuous, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inexact, inform, kaleidoscopic, lax, lisping, loose, low-profile, lumpen, merely glimpsed, mispronounced, misty, muzzy, nasal, nondescript, nonspecific, obscure, orderless, out of focus, pale, quavering, random, semivisible, shadowed forth, shadowy, shaking, shaky, shapeless, snuffling, stifled, stochastic, strangled, sweeping, thick, throaty, tremulous, twangy, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unrecognizable, unspecified, vague, veiled, velar, weak
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