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Blur

//ˈblɜː// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Lacking awareness; clueless or confused. Manglish, Singlish

    "If a Singaporean gets frustrated at your stupidity, he can scold you for being blur as sotong (clueless as a squid)."

Noun
  1. 1
    A smear, smudge or blot. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a hazy or indistinct representation wordnet
  3. 3
    Something that appears hazy or indistinct. countable, uncountable

    "The surroundings went by in a blur."

  4. 4
    Haziness, blurriness. uncountable

    "Unfortunately, a small artificial pupil also tends to increase the amount of diffraction somewhat, but this increase in blur is considerably smaller than the decrease that results from the control of other factors."

  5. 5
    A moral stain or blot. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "[…]with her raillyng sette a great blurre on myne honesty"

Verb
  1. 1
    To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.

    "to blur a photograph (by moving the camera while taking it)"

  2. 2
    become vague or indistinct wordnet
  3. 3
    To smear, stain or smudge.

    "to blur a manuscript (by handling it while damp)"

  4. 4
    make dim or indistinct wordnet
  5. 5
    To become indistinct. intransitive
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  1. 6
    make unclear, indistinct, or blurred wordnet
  2. 7
    To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.

    "His eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare."

  3. 8
    make a smudge on; soil by smudging wordnet
  4. 9
    To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation. obsolete, transitive

    "Sarcasms may eclipse thine own, / But cannot blur my lost renown."

  5. 10
    become glassy; lose clear vision wordnet
  6. 11
    To transfer the input focus away from. transitive

    "Then give this box focus to blur the first one: […]"

  7. 12
    to make less distinct or clear wordnet
  8. 13
    To use a sign, image, expression, etc. sufficiently close to a trademarked one that it causes confusion between them.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From earlier blurre, probably an alteration of blear, from Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian (attested in āblered (“made bare, made bald”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *blazjaną (“to make pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“pale”). Compare Scots blore, bloar (“to blur, cover with blots”), Low German bleeroged (“blear-eyed”). More at blear.

Etymology 2

From earlier blurre, probably an alteration of blear, from Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian (attested in āblered (“made bare, made bald”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *blazjaną (“to make pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“pale”). Compare Scots blore, bloar (“to blur, cover with blots”), Low German bleeroged (“blear-eyed”). More at blear.

Etymology 3

From earlier blurre, probably an alteration of blear, from Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian (attested in āblered (“made bare, made bald”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *blazjaną (“to make pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“pale”). Compare Scots blore, bloar (“to blur, cover with blots”), Low German bleeroged (“blear-eyed”). More at blear.

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