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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

... spoke to her in metal, not in flesh. It haunted her feelings and her faint imaginations alienly. It discoloured, it scorned the earth, and earth's teachings, and the understanding of life. Rational clearness at all avenues was blurred by it. The thought that Alvan lay wounded and in danger, was one thought: that Marko had stretched him there, was quite another, and was a livid eclipsing thought through which her grief had to work its way to get to heat and a state of burning. She knew ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... in fact. So also is it true that the common man derives no material advantage from the national success along this line, though he commonly believes that it all somehow inures to his benefit. It would seem that an ingrown bias of community interest, blurred and driven by a jealously sensitive patriotic pride, bends his faith uncritically to match his inclination. His persuasion is a work of ...

— An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation • Thorstein Veblen

... along, and my ejaculation, for that matter, was but a sign of triumph over catching him at the same game of peeping-Tom that we had been playing in the room below. Yet so quickly and over-lappingly do our minds work that at the same moment I had no less than three blurred emotions. I was pleased to find my friend was guilty, I was pleased with the sketch, yet puzzled to know how he had come to make it. Suddenly I ...

— Aliens • William McFee

... anyone who has indulged in ballooning knows fully well. On a clear summer's day I have been able to see the ground beneath with perfect distinctness from a height of 4,500 feet, yet when the craft had ascended a further two or three hundred feet, the panorama was blurred. A film of haze lies between the balloon and the ground beneath. And the character of this haze is continually changing, so that the aerial observer's task is rendered additionally difficult. Its effects are particularly notice able when one attempts to photograph ...

— Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War • Frederick A. Talbot

... For a time his attention was absorbed in the fragments of speech he heard. He had a doubt whether all were speaking English. Scraps floated to him, scraps like Pigeon English, like 'nigger' dialect, blurred and mangled distortions. He dared accost no one with questions. The impression the people gave him jarred altogether with his preconceptions of the struggle and confirmed the old man's faith in Ostrog. It ...

— When the Sleeper Wakes • Herbert George Wells

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