blurred

4 definitions found

blurred - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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  blurred \blurred\ (bl[^u]rd), adj.
     out of focus; not sharply defined.
  
     Syn: bleary, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, muzzy.
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blurred - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  blurred
      adj 1: indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred
             outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes" [syn:
             bleary, blurred, 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: blurred, clouded]

blurred - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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