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verb (used with object)
1.
to pass over lightly or without due mention or consideration (often followed by over): The report slurred over her contribution to the enterprise.
2.
3.
to cast aspersions on; calumniate; disparage; depreciate: The candidate was viciously slurred by his opponent.
4.
Music.
a.
to sing to a single syllable or play without a break (two or more tones of different pitch).
b.
to mark with a slur.
5.
Chiefly British Dialect. to smirch, sully, or stain.
verb (used without object)
6.
to read, speak, or sing hurriedly and carelessly.
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Slurred
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
noun
7.
a slurred utterance or sound.
8.
a disparaging remark or a slight: quick to take offense at a slur.
9.
a blot or stain, as upon reputation: a slur on his good name.
10.
Music.
a.
the combination of two or more tones of different pitch, sung to a single syllable or played without a break.
b.
a curved mark indicating this.
11.
Printing. a spot that is blurred or unclear as a result of paper, plate, or blanket slippage.
Origin:
1595–1605; apparently of multiple orig.; in senses referring to a gliding or smooth transition, compare Low German slurren to shuffle, Dutch sleuren to trail, drag; in senses referring to a smirch or stain, compare Middle Dutch slore (Dutch sloor) sluttish woman
1595–1605; apparently of multiple orig.; in senses referring to a gliding or smooth transition, compare Low German slurren to shuffle, Dutch sleuren to trail, drag; in senses referring to a smirch or stain, compare Middle Dutch slore (Dutch sloor) sluttish woman
Related forms
un·slurred, adjective
Synonyms
1. slight, disregard, gloss. 3. slander, asperse. 8. innuendo, insult, affront. 9. stigma, disgrace.
1. slight, disregard, gloss. 3. slander, asperse. 8. innuendo, insult, affront. 9. stigma, disgrace.
Antonyms
8. compliment.
8. compliment.
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Word Origin & History
slur
"deliberate slight," 1609, from dialectal slur "thin or fluid mud," from M.E. slore (1440), cognate with M.L.G. sluren, M.Du. sloren "to trail in mud." Related to E.Fris. sluren "to go about carelessly," Norw. slora "to be careless." The musical sense (1746) is from the notion of "sliding."
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