blur
/blɝ/ verb B2- To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim. · to blur a photograph (by moving the camera while taking it)
- To smear, stain or smudge. · to blur a manuscript (by handling it while damp)
- To become indistinct.
- To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
- To transfer the input focus away from.
- To use a sign, image, expression, etc. sufficiently close to a trademarked one that it causes confusion between them.
He/she/it blurs · Past blurred · Past participle blurred · -ing form blurring
Verb forms
- Base form
- blur
- He/she/it
- blurs
- Past
- blurred
- Past participle
- blurred
- -ing form
- blurring
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It was thickly coated with soot from the passing engines, but the black surface was blurred and rubbed in places.
There were, as he had said, marks upon the bed, but they were hopelessly blurred and vague.
The occupants had evidently retired to rest, for all was dark save for a fanlight over the hall door, which shed a single blurred circle on to the garden path.
There were the two towers of Baskerville Hall, and there a distant blur of smoke which marked the village of Grimpen.
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