Blurred

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blur \Blur\ (bl[^u]r), v. t. [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.
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              But time hath nothing blurred those lines of favor
              Which then he wore.                   --Shak.
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     2. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
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              Her eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare.
                                                    --J. R. Drake.
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     3. To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
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              Sarcasms may eclipse thine own,
              But can not blur my lost renown.      --Hudibras.
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     Syn: To spot; blot; disfigure; stain; sully.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  blurred \blurred\ (bl[^u]rd), adj.
     out of focus; not sharply defined.
  
     Syn: bleary, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, muzzy.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  blur
       n : 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}]
       v 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
       adj 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