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blur

(blûr)

v. blurred, blur·ring, blurs

v.tr.

1. To make indistinct and hazy in outline or appearance; obscure: The haze blurred the skyline.

2. To make dim, unclear, or cloudy: The smoke blurred my vision.

3. To cause to be intellectually indistinguishable: New thinking has blurred the divisions between disciplines.

v.intr.

1. To become visually indistinct: The faces blurred in the crowd.

2. To be unclear or clouded: His vision blurred as the drug took effect.

3. To become intellectually indistinguishable: TV commercials and shows seem to blur into one another.

Something that is hazy and indistinct to the sight or mind.

[Probably akin to Middle English bleren, to blear.]

blur′ri·ness n.

blur′ry adj.

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blur

(blɜː)

vb, blurs, blurring or blurred

1. to make or become vague or less distinct: heat haze blurs the hills; education blurs class distinctions.

2. to smear or smudge

3. (tr) to make (the judgment, memory, or perception) less clear; dim

4. something vague, hazy, or indistinct

5. a smear or smudge

[C16: perhaps variant of blear]

ˈblurred adj

blurredly adv

ˈblurredness n

ˈblurriness n

ˈblurry adj

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blur

(blɜr)

v. blurred, blur•ring,
n. v.t.

1. to obscure or make indistinct, as by smearing or staining: The fog blurred the outline of the car.

2. to obscure or sully by smearing or applying a smeary substance.

3. to dull the perception or susceptibility of: vision blurred by tears.

v.i.

4. to become indistinct.

5. to make blurs.

6. a smudge or smear that obscures: a blur of smoke.

7. a blurred condition; indistinctness.

8. something seen or remembered indistinctly.

[1540–50; akin to blear]

blur′red•ly, adv.

blur′red•ness, n.

blur

Past participle: blurred
Gerund: blurring

Imperative
blur
blur

Present
I blur
you blur
he/she/it blurs
we blur
you blur
they blur

Preterite
I blurred
you blurred
he/she/it blurred
we blurred
you blurred
they blurred

Present Continuous
I am blurring
you are blurring
he/she/it is blurring
we are blurring
you are blurring
they are blurring

Present Perfect
I have blurred
you have blurred
he/she/it has blurred
we have blurred
you have blurred
they have blurred

Past Continuous
I was blurring
you were blurring
he/she/it was blurring
we were blurring
you were blurring
they were blurring

Past Perfect
I had blurred
you had blurred
he/she/it had blurred
we had blurred
you had blurred
they had blurred

Future
I will blur
you will blur
he/she/it will blur
we will blur
you will blur
they will blur

Future Perfect
I will have blurred
you will have blurred
he/she/it will have blurred
we will have blurred
you will have blurred
they will have blurred

Future Continuous
I will be blurring
you will be blurring
he/she/it will be blurring
we will be blurring
you will be blurring
they will be blurring

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been blurring
you have been blurring
he/she/it has been blurring
we have been blurring
you have been blurring
they have been blurring

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been blurring
you will have been blurring
he/she/it will have been blurring
we will have been blurring
you will have been blurring
they will have been blurring

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been blurring
you had been blurring
he/she/it had been blurring
we had been blurring
you had been blurring
they had been blurring

Conditional
I would blur
you would blur
he/she/it would blur
we would blur
you would blur
they would blur

Past Conditional
I would have blurred
you would have blurred
he/she/it would have blurred
we would have blurred
you would have blurred
they would have blurred

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Noun	1.	blur - a hazy or indistinct representation; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz" fuzz internal representation, mental representation, representation - a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
Verb	1.	blur - become glassy; lose clear vision; "Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep" film over, glaze over
	2.	blur - to make less distinct or clear; "The haze blurs the hills" alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" focus - cause to converge on or toward a central point; "Focus the light on this image"
	3.	blur - make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions" obnubilate, obscure, confuse alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" confuse, confound - mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary" muddy - cause to become muddy; "These data would have muddied the prediction"
	4.	blur - make a smudge on; soil by smudging smudge, smutch, smear rub - move over something with pressure; "rub my hands"; "rub oil into her skin" resmudge - smudge again dust - rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape; "The artist dusted the charcoal drawing down to a faint image"
	5.	blur - make dim or indistinct; "The fog blurs my vision" blear alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" focalise, focalize, sharpen, focus - put (an image) into focus; "Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie"
	6.	blur - become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred" slur, dim weaken - become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" efface, obliterate - remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps" focalise, focalize, focus - become focussed or come into focus; "The light focused"

blur

noun

1. haze, confusion, fog, obscurity, dimness, cloudiness, blear, blurredness, indistinctness Her face is a blur.

verb

1. become indistinct, soften, become vague, become hazy, become fuzzy If you move your eyes and your head, the picture will blur.

2. obscure, make indistinct, mask, soften, muddy, obfuscate, make vague, befog, make hazy Scientists are trying to blur the distinction between these questions.

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blur

verb

To make dim or indistinct:

becloud, bedim, befog, blear, cloud, dim, dull, eclipse, fog, gloom, mist, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, overshadow, shadow.

Translations

شيئٌ مُغَشّى واضِحٍيَغْشى، يُشَوِّش الرؤيَه

rozmazatrozostřitzastřítrozmazaný obraz

sløre

verschwimmen Verschwommenheit verwischen

empañar hacer borrosoimagen borrosa/imprecisa

hämärtäähämärtyäsumentaasumentuatahra

estomper flouter image floue s'estomper brouiller

gera óskÿrt, blindamóîa, móîusÿn

immagine offuscata mosso offuscare

miglotas vaizdaspadaryti neaiškų

aizmiglotneskaidrs apveids

vervagen

gjøre uklar tåkete syn uskarpt syn viske ut

rozmazaný obrazzastrieť

bulan makbulanıklaş makbulanıklık

把….弄得模糊不清模糊一片

blur

[blɜːʳ]

A. N (= shape) → contorno m borroso
everything is a blur when I take off my glasses → todo se vuelve borroso cuando me quito los lentes
the memory is just a blur → es un recuerdo muy vago
my mind was a blur → todo se volvió borroso en mi mente

B. VT

1. (= obscure) [+ writing] → borrar, hacer borroso; [+ outline] → desdibujar; [+ sight] → oscurecer, empañar
my eyes were blurred with tears → las lágrimas me enturbiaban la vista

2. (fig) [+ memory] → enturbiar; [+ judgment] → ofuscar

C. VI (= be obscured) → desdibujarse, volverse borroso
her eyes blurred with tears → las lágrimas le enturbiaban la vista

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

blur

[ˈblɜː^r]

n → image f floue

[+ image, picture] → brouiller, rendre flou(e); [+ vision] → troubler
to blur the distinction between → estomper la distinction entre, estomper la différence entre

vi [image] → se troubler

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blur

n → verschwommener Fleck; the blur of their faces → ihre verschwommenen Gesichter; the trees became a blur → man konnte die Bäume nur noch verschwommen erkennen; a blur of colours (Brit) or colors (US) → ein buntes Durcheinander von Farben

inscription → verwischen; writing also → verschmieren; view → verschleiern; outline, photograph → unscharf or verschwommen machen; sound → verzerren; to have blurred vision → nur noch verschwommen sehen; to be/become blurred → undeutlich sein/werden; (image etc also) → verschwommen sein/verschwimmen; her eyes were blurred with tears → ihre Augen schwammen in Tränen; the tape is blurred here → an dieser Stelle ist die Aufnahme verzerrt

(fig) senses, mind, judgement → trüben; memory also, meaning → verwischen; intention → in den Hintergrund drängen

vi (vision, image) → verschwommen werden, verschwimmen

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blur

[blɜːʳ]

1. n (shape) → massa indistinta or confusa
my mind was a blur → avevo la mente annebbiata

2. vt (writing) → rendere (quasi) illeggibile; (outline, sight, memory, judgment) → offuscare

3. vi (see vt) → diventare (quasi) illeggibile, offuscarsi
her eyes blurred with tears → gli occhi le si velarono di lacrime

blur

(bləː) noun

something not clearly seen. Everything is just a blur when I take my spectacles off.

verb – past tense, past participle blurred –

to make or become unclear. The rain blurred my vision.

blur

vt. empañar, nublar los ojos.

blur

vi (pret & pp blurred; ger blurring) (one’s vision) nublarse, empañarse

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The trees and houses still moved past him in the same indistinguishable blur.

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It is imperative that now at once, while these stupendous events are still clear in my mind, I should set them down with that exactness of detail which time may blur. But even as I do so, I am overwhelmed by the wonder of the fact that it should be our little group of the "Lost World"--Professor Challenger, Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and myself--who have passed through this amazing experience.

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San Francisco lay like a blur of smoke upon her heights.

She clung to him, unable to release herself, and he sat, half supporting her in his arms, as he gazed with unseeing eyes at the blur of the great city across the bay.

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Amid the blur of green, and dimly, she saw familiar faces and heard voices as if they came from far across the fields, and Edmond was holding her.

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Louis at four in the afternoon, and she stood on the lower guard abaft the paddle box and watched Tom through a blur of tears until he melted into the throng of people and disappeared; then she looked no more, but sat there on a coil of cable crying till far into the night.

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Had he had the eyes of a man, nearly two yards higher than his own from the deck, and had they been the trained eyes of a man, sailor- man at that, Jerry could have seen the low blur of Ysabel to the north and the blur of Florida to the south, ever taking on definiteness of detail as the Arangi sagged close-hauled, with a good full, port-tacked to the south-east trade.

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On the left the low-lying land stretched in a dim haze, rising here and there into a darker blur which marked the higher capes and headlands.

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Right ahead a dark blur upon the water showed where the Aurora lay, and the swirl of white foam behind her spoke of the pace at which she was going.

The dull blur in front of us resolved itself now clearly enough into the dainty Aurora.

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When you move rapidly, I experience a bewildering succession of blurs. The blurring sensation makes my eyes ache and my brain tired."

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She is moving toward us faster than the speed my shutter can handle, resulting in blur. Her burst of energy contrasts with the relaxed, crossed-hands posture of the two people at right.

Blurred images put ideas in focus: express meaning by extending time, implying motion

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