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blur

/blɝ/noun, verb1 syllable

Blur means: make unclear, indistinct, or blurred.

Synonyms for blur26

noun, as in a hazy or indistinct representation

fuzz

verb, as in make unclear, indistinct, or blurred

confuse, obscure, obnubilate, confound

verb, as in make a smudge on; soil by smudging

smear, smudge, smutch

verb, as in become glassy; lose clear vision

film over, glaze over

verb, as in become vague or indistinct

dim, slur

verb, as in make dim or indistinct

blear

also used for blur

pixelate, smooth, besmear, blot, tarnish, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, unfocus

Includes material from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Opposites of blur

focus

What does blur mean?7

verb

1

make unclear, indistinct, or blurred“Her remarks confused the debate”

2

make a smudge on; soil by smudging

3

become glassy; lose clear vision“Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep”

4

become vague or indistinct“The distinction between the two theories blurred”

5

make dim or indistinct“The fog blurs my vision”

6

to make less distinct or clear“The haze blurs the hills”

noun

1

a hazy or indistinct representation“it happened so fast it was just a blur”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with blur?28

four syllables

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Blur in a sentence

  • It's all kind of a blur to me.CK
  • It's all still kind of a blur to me.CK
  • The rest of the week was pretty much a blur.CK
  • Rodrigo doesn’t know how to use the blur feature.Amastan
  • I can't remember anything. It's just one big blur.Hybrid
  • The story took place a very long time ago and now, it's such a blur.Amastan
  • The sports car was going so fast it was just a blur as it passed by.orcrist
  • Fiction and reality are starting to blur.Hybrid

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of blur

as a noun

plural
blurs

as a verb

past tense
blurred
present participle
blurring
third-person singular
blurs
past participle
blurred