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Blurred   /blərd/   Listen
Blurred

adjective
1.
Indistinct or hazy in outline.  Synonyms: bleary, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy.  "The trees were just blurry shapes"
2.
Unclear in form or expression.  Synonym: clouded.  "Sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded"


Blur

verb
(past & past part. blurred; pres. part. blurring)
1.
Become glassy; lose clear vision.  Synonyms: film over, glaze over.
2.
To make less distinct or clear.
3.
Make unclear, indistinct, or blurred.  Synonyms: confuse, obnubilate, obscure.  "Their words obnubilate their intentions"
4.
Make a smudge on; soil by smudging.  Synonyms: smear, smudge, smutch.
5.
Make dim or indistinct.  Synonym: blear.
6.
Become vague or indistinct.  Synonyms: dim, slur.



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"Blurred" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the arm-chair before the fire in which he had spent the evening. The light danced before him in blurred flashes. ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell
... little of detail; faces were blurred, unrecognizable; all I seemed to note clearly was that solid, brutal, heartless, blaspheming line of desperate men sweeping toward us with a relentless fury our puny bullets could not check. Reckless ferocity was in that mad rush; they pressed on more ...
— My Lady of the North • Randall Parrish
... and blurred eyes he moved painfully through the forest and over the sandy riverbank. On those rare occasions when he saw game his arms trembled so violently as he drew the bow that the arrow went wide and fell far short of ...
— The Black Phantom • Leo Edward Miller
... The eastward sides of the tree-trunks and naked branches glimmered pink; and dew-wet leaves, here and there, shone like pale jewels of pink, amber, and violet. The mirror-like surface of the river was blurred with twisting spirals of mist, silvery and opalescent, through which the dim-seen figure of a duck in straight flight shot ...
— The Watchers of the Trails - A Book of Animal Life • Charles G. D. Roberts
... and over again, his blood firing with honest indignation. Thelma! Thelma—that pure white lily of womanhood,—was she to have her stainless life blurred by the trail of such a thing as the Snake?—and was Errington's honor to be attainted in his absence, and he condemned without a ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli


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