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blur

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verb (used with object)

to obscure or sully (something) by smearing or with a smeary substance: The windows were blurred with soot.

to obscure by making confused in form or outline; make indistinct: The fog blurred the outline of the car.

to dim the perception or susceptibility of; make dull or insensible: The blow on the head blurred his senses.

verb (used without object)

to become indistinct: Everything blurred as she ran.

to make blurs.

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noun

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

a blurred condition; indistinctness: They could see nothing in the foggy blur.

something seen indistinctly: The ship appeared as a blur against the horizon.

Origin:
1540–50; akin to blear

Related forms

blur·red·ly

[blur-id-lee, blurd-] , adverb

blur·red·ness, noun

blur·ring·ly, adverb

un·blurred, adjective

Synonyms
2. cloud, dim, darken, veil, mask.

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Long exposure times increase the chance you'll blur the shot, whether through the subject's movement or yours.

The line between your space and everyone else's is now a beeping, ringing blur.

All my birthday parties are a blur of cake and presents.

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Long exposure times increase the chance you'll blur the shot, whether through the subject's movement or yours.

The line between your space and everyone else's is now a beeping, ringing blur.

All my birthday parties are a blur of cake and presents.

The end of my senior year was a blur as everything came and went before my eyes.

The first day of orientation in my doctoral program is still a blur.

But in other ways they are sui generis: much more diversified and readier to blur the line between public and private.

Only one or two companions are visible at any time in the blur of electric greens and rain-soaked browns.

Some experiments can disquietingly blur the line between species.

The best seem to glide through the air from the waist up, but their feet are a blur.

She wiggles her head so much it practically becomes a blur.

For some travelers it is only a blur through a car.

Our days are often a blur of staff meetings and teleconferences, board.

But the party forbids exploration of anything that might blur this picture.

When all else fails, try to embrace the blur that you have to accept anyway.

With a simple pair of binoculars, you can see that the blur consists of millions of individual points of light.

Lensbaby lenses are low-fi optics which creatively blur all but a sharp sweet-spot of your photo.

On cloudy days, the skyline is a gray blur rising from the water, giving justa hint.

Most of the essays will blur together, broken up by the occasional brilliant or hilariously bad one.

Wherever you look you can see the proliferation of hybrid organisations that blur the line between the public and private sector.

Try shooting at slow shutter speeds to deliberately blur your subject.

New studies show how such mental maps blur with age and readily extend to accommodate bionic limbs.

The case, for all its sensational elements, had begun to blur in the public's consciousness.

New interfaces that mix many different information sources blur all that, he said.

What is more, as computing becomes a utility, the borders between different systems are starting to blur.

Slowly a skull-shaped blur floats into view against the black of the night-a ghost, he believes.

It took all three of us to muscle the slippery black bulk of the pilot whale into the screaming blur of the band-saw blade.

Samsung's imaginary cameras uses depth information from two lenses to blur backgrounds.

The photography-derived blur recurs at intervals throughout the painter's career.

I've been on those committees, and after a while it all becomes a blur.

The examples blur into each other and the conclusion is always the same-checklists are where it's.

Not even the whiskey, fatigue, and steam can blur the clear reality of the graphs' upward-ticking lines:.

Despite the brief reprise your vision remains cloudy, causing the words on the monitor to blur.

In order to see an object clearly, an accurate estimate of blur is important.

Rodriguez attempts, perhaps disingenuously, to blur the difference between legal and illegal immigrants.

Board members often blur the line between setting policy and executing.

Howling, she grabs fistfuls of air, writhing in a blur of blue latex and spangled fur.

Most any software today gives you abundant options to blur a picture and then paint back detail where you want.

But the reality is that a number of conditions can blur the gender line.

The result should be less-noisy images in low-light situations and less motion blur from having to crank down shutter.

These are some of the few teachers who have not faded into the blur that has wiped the majority from memory.

Indeed, there are areas of social science that blur the boundaries with natural sciences.

Social entrepreneurs often blur the distinction between making money and offering charity.

To avoid being too anatomical when photographing the human form, try using soft focus or a little blur.

Interstellar gas will, however, blur the finer details.

Their obvious strategy is to blur this distinction, attack the theory and discredit the scientific method itself.

The big orange blur seems to disorient them and they will stay away for a couple of days.

Others fear that beauty firms are trying to blur the line between drugs and.

After a brief power struggle, the python popped out of the crack in a blur of coils and quickly started to wrap us up.

They discovered brown dwarfs, which blur the distinction between planet and star.

With composite video, all the little lines blur together into one indistinct blob.

The lines blur in specialty stores and often disappear in small boutiques.

Such knowledge helps blur the distinction between a nutrient and a drug.

For a moment there is only a blur of red-orange, silky fur.

Harmon seems almost to purposely blur the distinction between causation and correlation.

Despite all this attention the mimivirus' physical structure remained a blur.

Facebook is unprecedented not only in its scale but also in its ability to blur boundaries between the real and virtual worlds.

For example, until now the formation and breakage of molecular bonds by atoms was essentially a blur to scientists.

Just kill and kill quickly and move on within graphical interfaces that blur the lines of reality.

What happened next has disappeared into an anguished blur of guilt and confusion.

Third-world multinationals blur the battle lines in the globalisation debate.

Since white women are not natively naked, they get a blur.

If you get a blurry picture, not real, the blur was added to distract from wires or whatever.

These delinquent channels can make a short, sharp wave blur into a longer, weaker one.

Invited to display it, he lifts a heavy stone slab onto a metal spike in the ground and spins it to a blur with a bamboo stick.

The line between self-improvement and neurosis can blur.

We head to the couch and pull out our laptops and work until our eyes blur the lines on the screen.

The camera records video and then process the frames to keep the subject sharp and blur the background.

What could be possible answer to the situation is blur at the moment.

The last minutes to the hospital blur past, a manic, sweat-soaked dream.

Leaving the shutter open means that you'll need to stabilize your camera in order to avoid any motion blur.

The whole story here is about fact and fiction but a clever use of any language can blur that distinction.

We've had novels and movies, and these things kind of blur the lines of fiction and in some ways invade the real world".

Simply talking for the sake of talking or to take up space will blur in with the white noise.

If lots of celestial bodies are in similar orbits, they all tend to blur together.

Even in daylight you might want to blur the action but keep the back ground sharp.

Before long, lines between different groups begin to blur.

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World English Dictionary

blur (blɜː)

—vb , blurs, blurring, 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

—n
4.	something vague, hazy, or indistinct
5.	a smear or smudge

[C16: perhaps variant of blear]

blurred

—*adj*

blurredly

—*adv*

'blurredness

—n

'blurriness

—n

'blurry

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

blur

1540s, akin to blear. The verb is 1580s, from the noun.

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