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Blur

noun

A hazy or indistinct representation. Synonym: fuzz. "He tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz"

verb

(past & past part. blurred; pres. part. blurring)

Become glassy; lose clear vision. Synonyms: film over, glaze over.

To make less distinct or clear.

Make unclear, indistinct, or blurred. Synonyms: confuse, obnubilate, obscure. "Their words obnubilate their intentions"

Make a smudge on; soil by smudging. Synonyms: smear, smudge, smutch.

Make dim or indistinct. Synonym: blear.

Become vague or indistinct. Synonyms: dim, slur.

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"Blur" Quotes from Famous Books

... wondering regret.. quietly he passed the missive to Theos, who took it from his hand with a tremor of something like fear. The delicately traced characters with which it was covered floated for a moment in a faint blur before his eyes,—then they resolved themselves into legible shape and meaning, ...

— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli

... reasons of race and religion against it. But she need not have feared that Pontiac would show himself, or his long and savage mourning for the destruction of the red man, to any descendant of the English. As the bushes closed behind her she looked back: the phosphoric blur was already so far in the west that she could hardly be sure she saw it again. And the young agent of the Fur Company, breaking his way among leaves, met her with both hands; saying gayly, to save her the shock of ...

— The Chase Of Saint-Castin And Other Stories Of The French In The New World • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... My breath stopped. On our mirror I saw the stranger's hood part just a little. There seemed to be no face; just the blur of something brownish. ...

— Wandl the Invader • Raymond King Cummings

... who bound me to him as no other man has since bound me, were too dear to leave even briefly without wrenching pain. I dreamed nightly of robbers and disaster, of being ignominiously thrust out of Mittau, of seeing a woman whose face was a blur and who moved backward from me when I called her my sister; of troops marching across and trampling me into the earth as straw. I groaned in spirit. Yet to Mittau I was spurred by the kind of force that seems to press from unseen distances, ...

— Lazarre • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... all trace of the sleigh, and at last Rallywood himself, well as he knew the country, became bewildered; but luckily the horse he rode was a charger he had had with him on the Frontier. He left it to choose its own direction, yet it was long before a blur of light which he knew to be the open doorway of the block-house grew out ...

— A Modern Mercenary • Kate Prichard and Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard

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