Blur

Definition: Blur

Blur

Noun

1. A hazy or indistinct representation; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz".

Verb

1. Become glassy; lose clear vision; "Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep".

2. To make less distinct or clear: "heat haze blurs the hills.".

3. Make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate".

4. Make a smudge on; soil by smudging.

5. Make dim or indistinct; "The drug blurs my vision".

6. Become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "blur" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Fine Arts

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Blur

Blemish

Stain, blot; spot, spottiness; speck, speckle, blur.

Disrepute

Tarnish, taint, defilement, pollution. stain, blot, spot, blur, stigma, brand, reproach, imputation, slur.

Uncleanness

Render unclean; Adjective: dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease;dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear; bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt; (injure); cover with dust; Noun: drabble in the mud; roil.

Crosswords: Blur

Before I could only see a dark blur, now I can see a light blur (Episode VI: Return of the Jedi; writing credit: Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas.)

Instead of a big dark blur, I'm beginning to see a big light blur (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan)

It's all a blur. I have no energy to write (Platoon; writing credit: Oliver Stone)

All your life you live so close to truth it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it's like being ambushed by a grotesque (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; writing credit: Tom Stoppard;)

Blur and Blank via Checkheaton (1972)

Loladamusica: Blur in Concert (1999)

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Books

• Blur / The Great Escape (reference)

• Lowfat Cooking in the Cultural Blur of California (reference)

• Where to Focus When Life's a Blur (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Blur (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Blur - The Best of (reference)

• The Blur of Insanity (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Blur (reference)

• Maximum Blur (reference)

• The Best of Blur (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The lights of the truck came on, and they illuminated a little blur of highway ahead, and a strip of desert on either side of the road

All your life you live so close to the truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The blood will blur your vision. (references)

As new blood vessels form at the back of the eye, they can bleed (hemorrhage) and blur vision. (references)

Sometimes a part of the natural lens that is not removed during cataract surgery becomes cloudy and may blur your vision. (references)

Business

In some areas cooperation between official and unofficial churches has expanded so as to blur the line between the two. (references)

Civil Liberties

China

Coexistence and cooperation between official and unofficial churches in such areas, both Catholic and Protestant, is close enough to blur the line between the two. (references)

Economic History

Australia

Some argue that they are becoming obsolete, as the distinctions between communications media blur with new developments in information technology. (references)

South Africa

Specific product groups are difficult to define as rapidly evolving technologies increasingly blur the distinction between data, voice and image mediums. (references)

Political Economy

Costa Rica

Party leaders tend to blur these policy and ideological differences. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "blur": blur out. Additional references.

Ending with "blur": nightmare-blur, rain-blur.

Albanian

turbullirë (cloudiness, commotion, fog, tumult, turbidity, turbulence), njollos (bespatter, blacken, blemish, blot, cloud, defile, dye, imbrue, smear, smirch, smudge, splash, splotch, spot, stain, sully), njolloj (blemish, blot, smear, spot, stain, sully, thumb), njollë (blemish, blot, blotch, cloud, discoloration, imputation, Mark, mote, nebula, patch, plash, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint), mjegulloj (fog), mjegullim (haze, haziness, nebulosity), fëlliq (bedraggle, besmear, bring in the mire, contaminate, daub, defile, dirty, draggle, foul, mire, pollute, soil), errësoj (adumbrate, becloud, bedim, black out, darken, dim, dusk, eclipse, fog, obfuscate, obscure, overshadow, shadow), avull (exhalation, fume, reek, steam, vapor, vapour). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لطخ (bedaub, besmear, blot, blotch, daub, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, splash, splotch, spot, stain, streak, sully, taint, tarnish), ‏غشى البصر, ‏أصبح غير واضح, ‏شىء ضبابي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

неясно място, мъгла (brume, exhalation, fog, mirk, murk, vapor, vapour), зацапвам (begrime, smudge), замъглявам (bedim, befog, dim, dull, film, fog, muddy, skim). (various references)

Chinese 

迷离, 朦朧 , 混淆 (confuse, mix up, obscure). (various references)

Czech

skvrna (blob, blot, blotch, carbuncle, fleck, macula, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, spatter, speck, splash, spot, stain, taint, tarnish), rozmazat (smudge), èmouha. (various references)

Dutch

vervagen (fade). (various references)

Esperanto

malklariĝi (fade). (various references)

Farsi 

منظره مه الود, محوکردن (Deface, Efface, Eliminate, Erase, Expunge, Obliterate, Raze, Unbuild, Washout), نامشخص بنظرامدن , لکه (Blob, Blot, Blotch, Dirt, Dot, Freckle, Gall, Glob, Pip, Smear, Smooch, Smudge, Smut, Splotch, Spot, Stain, Taint), لک کردن (Smudge), تیره کردن (Dark, Dim, Fog, Gloom, Mud, Obscure, Overcast, Shade, Tarnish), تیرگی (Fog, Gloom, Muddle, Obscurity). (various references)

Finnish

himmenntää (darken, dim, dip the lights, eclipse, obscure, outshine, screen off, stop down). (various references)

French

brouiller, bavure, tache (blob, blot, blotch), se brouiller, pâté (blob, blot), flou (blurred, blurring), estomper, embuer. (various references)

German

verwischen (cover over, efface, smudge, to smear, wear away), Verschleierung (blurring, cover up, covering up, deception, disguising, spoofing, veiling), verschleiern (cloud, cover up, disguise, fog, to fog, veil), Unklarheit (lack of clarity, obscureness, obscurities, obscurity, sketchiness, uncertainty). (various references)

Greek 

κηλιδώ (attaint, imbrue), κηλίδα (blemish, blot, macula, moil, mottle, patch, slick, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, stain, taint), αμαυρώ, θολούρα (dimness, turbidness). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעמעם (darken, dim, mute, obscure, overlook, tarnish), לטשטש (besmear, blot, deface, discolour, haze, smudge). (various references)

Hungarian

beken (coat, dab, dabble, daub, putty, salve, to anoint, to cream, to muck, to salve, to slather, to smear, to splodge, to splotch, to wash), szégyenfolt (blemish, blot, plague spot, slur, spot, stain), ködösség (fogginess, haziness, mistiness, nebulosity), homályosság (ambiguity, dullness, duskiness, haziness, murkiness, nebulosity, obscurity, opacity, tarnish, turbidity), homály (darkness, dimness, dimwit, gloom, gloominess, mirk, mist, murk, obscureness, obscurity, shade, shades, shadow, twilight), folt (blemish, blob, blot, blotch, cloud, clout, crock, dab, flaw, freckle, gout, mottle, patch, smear, smirch, smudge, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, tarnish), elmosódottság (blurring, fogginess), elhomályosít (bedim, dusk, outshine, overcast, tarnish, to adumbrate, to blur, to chill, to eclipse, to efface, to obfuscate, to obscure, to overshadow, to overtop, to throw into the shade). (various references)

Indonesian

samar-samar (blurry, cryptic, vague, vaguely), mengaburkan (make something hazy or foggy, obscure), membuat kabur. (various references)

Italian

fare confusione (clutter), apparenza confusa, annebbiare (become foggy, cloud, fog, grow dim, mist, obscure). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

潤み (moisture, opacity), 不鮮明 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うるみ (moisture, opacity), ふせんめい. (various references)

Korean 

흐림. (various references)

Manx

smearey (blemish, smear, smudge, splotch, stain), mee-chummey (asymmetry, deform, deformation, deformity, malform, malformation, misshape), dolley (black out, blot, blot on character, blot out, deface, defacement, erasure, lack), cur kay er (cloud, dim, fog), cummey do-akin. (various references)

Norwegian

dimme. (various references)

Pig Latin

urblay.(various references)

Portuguese

borrão (blob, smear, smudge, splodge, splotch, spot). (various references)

Romanian

umbri (adumbrate, cloud, darken, dim, eclipse, obfuscate, screen, shade, worsen), trãsãturi confuze, patã (blemish, blot, breath, dab, flaw, fleck, Mark, patch, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, spatter, spill, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, ulcer), mânji (bedaub, beddable, besmear, besmirch, daub, defile, foul, grime, mess, smirch, soil, stain, sully), estompare, estompa (stump, subdue). (various references)

Russian 

смазывать (anoint, grease, lubricate, lubricated, oil, salve, smear), расплывшиеся очертания, затуманить, затемнить, пятно (attaint, blemish, blot, blotch, cloud, fleck, imputation, moil, patch, reflection, reflexion, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, spot, spots of, stain, stigma, taint). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zamagliti (befog, dim, fog, mist), pomutiti (obfuscate, overcloud), nejasni obris. (various references)

Spanish

borrón (blob, blot, blurring, slur, splodge, splotch, stain), vaho (fume, haze, mist, steam, vapor, vapour, whiff), manchar (bedaub, befoul, besmirch, blemish, blot, blotch, dapple, daub, defile, dirty, foul, maculate, Mark, smear, smudge, soil, spot, stain, sully, taint, tarnish), mancha (black spot, blemish, blob, blot, blotch, daub, fleck, macula, Mark, patch, slick, smear, smudge, speckle, splash, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, taint), enturbiar (disturb, fog, muddy, puddle, roil), empañarse (dim, falter, tarnish), empañar (fog, mist, steam, swaddle, tarnish), emborronar (blot), difuminar (blear), desdibujarse (fade, fade away, fade out), aspecto borroso. (various references)

Swedish

suddighet, sudda ut (blot out, efface, erase, rob out), fläck (blemish, blot, blotch, discoloration, fleck, flick, Mark, mottle, patch, slur, smear, smirch, speck, speckle, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, taint). (various references)

Turkish

bulanmak (dim, film over), bulandırmak (cloud, darken, dim, muddy, trouble, turn, upset), bulanıklaştırmak, bulanıklık (cloud, dimness, fog, haze, haziness, indistinctness, Mackle, muddiness, turbidity), bulaştırmak (bedabble, bedaub, besmear, communicate, contaminate, corrupt, daub, dirty, drag, embroil, entangle, imbrue, implicate, infect, involve, inweave, propagate, slush, smear, smudge, splodge, splotch, spread, taint, transmit, twine), mürekkep lekesi (blot, blotch, ink blot, inky spot), lekelenmek (bastardize, be dishonored, be spotted, be stained, become stained, blotch, smudge, spot), lekelemek (asperse, attaint, bastardize, bedaub, befoul, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blot, blotch, brand, breathe upon, cloud, defile, dirty, discolor, discolour, dishonor, fleck, flecker, maculate, mottle, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, spatter, speckle, splodge, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tarnish), leke (attaint, blemish, blob, blot, blotch, cloud, discoloration, discolouration, fleck, Mackle, macula, maculation, mottle, shame, slur, smear, smirch, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish), flu yapmak, donukluk (deadness, dimness, dinginess, dullness, halation, inanimation, opaqueness, tarnish, veiling). (various references)

Ukrainian

робити нечітким, вада (blemish, defect, demerit, disfiguration, disfigurement, fault, shortcoming, weakness), згладжувати (efface, iron out, smooth, smooth over), затуманювати (bedim, befog, bemist, blear, fog, mist), заляпувати, ляпка, бруднити (befoul, begrime, bespatter, daub, dirty, discolor, discolour, foul, mess up, muck, muss, smear, smudge, soil, sully), псувати (alloy, bedevil, blemish, blight, break, corrupt, cripple, debase, deface, deform, degrade, deprave, destroy, deteriorate, discount, disfigure, do for, envenom, erode, flaw, make miserable, mess, mismanage, muddle, muff, perish, prejudice, punish, queer, spoil, vitiate, waste), порок (defect, evil, sin, taint, vice, wickedness), потемніння (eclipse, obscuration), помутніння (obfuscation), пляма (blot, blotch, discoloration, discolouration, fleck, macula, maculation, slur, smear, smirch, splash, spot, stain, star, taint). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trạng thái mập mờ vết mực, dáng mập mờ, cảnh mờ. (various references)

Welsh

ystaen (tin), ysmotyn (blob, blotch, spot). (various references)

confudisset, confudisti, confudistis, confudit, confundam, confundamur, confundamus, confundantur, confundar, confundaris, confundas, confundat, confundatur, confunde, confundebat, confundemini, confundens, confundentur, confundere, confunderis, confundet, confundetur, confundimini, confundit, confunditis, confunditur, confundor, confusa, confusi, confusum, confusus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "blur": blurb, blurbed, blurbing, blurbs, blurred, blurrier, blurriest, blurrily, blurriness, blurrinesses, blurring, blurringly, blurry, blurs, blurt, blurted, blurter, blurters, blurting, blurts. (additional references)

Words containing "blur": doublure, doublures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Blur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ablur, alur, beur, Bilauri, blar, blarg, blarn, blau, blerk, blir, bloar, blokr, blor, blork, blour, blu, bluf, blug, blun, bluo, blup, blurp, blurr, blury, Blut, Brul, brur, bul, Buur, clur, lru, lur, olur, plur, Uluru. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: burl.

-1 letter: bur, rub, urb.

+1 letter: bluer, blurb, blurs, blurt, burls, burly, ruble, slurb.

+2 letters: blurbs, blurry, blurts, brulot, brumal, brutal, bugler, bulbar, bulger, bulgur, burble, burbly, burgle, burial, burlap, burled, burler, burley, bursal, butler, labour, labrum, lubber, lubric, lumbar, lumber, rouble, rubble, rubbly, rubles, rumble, rumbly, slurbs, umbral.

+3 letters: barbule, blubber, blucher, bludger, bluffer, blunder, blunger, blunter, blurbed, blurred, blurted, blurter, blusher, bluster, boulder, brimful, brulots, brulyie, brulzie, brutely, bubbler, buckler, buglers, builder, buirdly, bulgers, bulgier, bulgurs, bulkier, bullier, bulrush, bulwark, bumbler, bundler, bungler, burbled, burbler, burbles, burghal, burglar, burgled, burgles, burials, burlaps, burlers, burlesk, burleys, burlier, burlily, burling, butlers, butlery, butyral, butyryl, clubber, clumber, crumble, crumbly, curable, curably, doubler, drumble, durable, durably, fabular, fibular, flubber, fumbler, grumble, grumbly, humbler, jumbler, labarum, labours, labrums, lobular, lubbers, lumbars, lumbers, mumbler, nebular, pabular, plumber, puberal, railbus, rebuild, rebuilt, replumb, roubles, rubbled, rubbles, rubella, rubeola, rulable, rumbled, rumbler, rumbles, slubber, slumber, slurban, subalar, suboral, subrule, subtler, tabular, tilbury, trouble, tubular, tumbler, tumbrel, tumbril.