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Definitions: Blear |
BlearAdjective1. Tired to the point of exhaustion. Verb1. Make dim or indistinct; "The drug blurs my vision". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blear" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: BlearSynonyms: blear-eyed (adj), bleary (adj), bleary-eyed (adj), blur (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: focus (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Blear |
| English words defined with "blear": Bleared, Blearing ♦ To blear the eye of. (references) |
Expressions using "blear": blear the eyes ♦ To blear the eye of. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "blear": blear-eied, Blear-eyed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blear"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i turbulluar (addle-brained, addle-head, addle-pated, bleary, foggy, roily), i mjegulluar (bedimmed, bleary, foggy, hazy, misty, woozy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غائم (bleary, clouded over, cloudy, dull, filmy, fuzzy, hazy, nebulous, woolly), دمع العينين, دامع (lachrymatory, moist, tearful, watering, watery, weeping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), замъглен (befogged, bleary, filmy, foggy, hazy, misted, misty, nebulous, smoky, vapory, vapoury). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zastřený (covert). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tihrusilmäinen (blear-eyed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | nuageux (bleary, blurred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | trübe (bleak, blearly, bleary, cheerless, cloudy, dark, dim, dimly, dismal, drab, dreary, dull, filmy, gloomy, grey, grim, indistinct, lackluster, lacklustre, misty, muddy, murky, sludge, somberly, turbid, turbid water). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ασαφήσ (ambiguous, fuzzy, hazy, indeterminate, indistinct, inexplicit, misty, vague), τσιμπλιάρησ (bleary), θαμπώνω (blind, dazzle, tarnish, to become cloudy, to darken, to dull, to haze), θαμπόσ (blurry, mat), θολώνω τα μάτια, θολόσ (bleary, blurred, clouded, hazy, muddy, opaque, roily, splashy, thick, turbid, woozy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vizenyõs (aqueous, soggy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | berair mata (bleary), menitikkan air mata, mengelabui. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | offuscato (cloudy, obfuscated, obscured), appannato (cloudy, dim, dull, matt, steamy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | kiebeigey, jannoo dullyr (befog, blur vision, dim), jannoo dorraghey (bedim, darken), goorlagh (blear-eyed, gum, gum of eye, gummy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | earblay turvo (cloudy, dim, dimmish, dregs, fecund, foul, milky, muddy, roily, thick, troubled, turbid), turvar (cloud, dim, muddy, obscure, puddle, roil, thicken), toldar (darken, haze, mistake, obfuscate, overcast, shadow), remelento (gumption), ofuscar (bedazzle, bedim, blur, daze, dazzle, dim, obfuscate, outshine, overshoe, sadden), nublado (cloudy, hazy, misty, nebulosus), lacrimejante, indeciso (double-minded, doubtfully, drawn, feckless, fitful, half hearted, halve, indecisive, index, irresolution, laconic, pendant, pending, shilly shally, suspended, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unsolved, unsteady, up in the air, vacillating, vague, wavering), impreciso (fuzzy, hit-and-miss, impregnable, inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, indeterminate, lacklustre, sketchy, vague, wrong), empanar (besmirch), confuso (abrupt, abstruse, cloudy, confused, disorderly, disturber, dizzy, hugger mugger, indistinguishable, intricate, jumbled up, labyrinthine, lacklustre, mazy, medley, messy, mixed, muddy, obscure, pell mell, perplexed, promiscuous, rigmarole, rough and tumble, tangly, topsy turvy), cegar (blind, blunt, dazzle, go blind). (various references) întunecat (black, blind, clouded, cloudy, dark, darkish, darksome, deep, dismal, dull, dusky, fuliginous, fuscous, gloomy, glum, inky, lowering, muddy, murk, obscurely, opaque, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, tenebrous), înceţoşat (dim, filmy, foggy, misty). (various references) тусклый (bleary, dim, dingy, dull, faint, fishy, glazy, lackluster, lacklustre, mat, muddy, obscure, pale, sad, sunless, wan), затуманенный (befogged, bleary, cloudy, misty). (various references) sreamach (blear-eyed, corrugated). (various references) nublar (bedim, befog, mist), difuminar (blur). (various references) inhöljd. (various references) yaşartmak, sulanmış (bleary), sulandırmak (cut, dilute, doctor, lengthen, reconstitute, water, water down), donuk (blurred, clouded, colourless, dead, diaphanous, dim, dull, dullish, frosty, glassy, inanimate, mat, Matt, opaque, toneless). (various references) неясний (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blind, blurred, chancy, darkling, doubtful, dusk, faint, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, misty, nebulose, nebulous, nubilous, obscure, opaque, oracular, oraculous, recondite, shadowy, transcendental, unaccounted for, unclear, undistinguished, woolly, wooly), затьмарювати (alloy, begloom, cloud, darken, eclipse, obfuscate, obscure, outdazzle, overcast, overcloud, overshade, overshadow, overtop, shade, shadow, shine down), затуманювати (bedim, befog, bemist, blur, fog, mist), затуманений (cloudy). (various references) u mê (muddle-headed). (various references) pw+l (blunt, dim, dull, obtuse), dyfriog (aquatic), dolurus (sore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blear": bleared, blearier, bleariest, blearily, bleariness, blearinesses, blearing, blears, bleary. (additional references) | |
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"Blear" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alear, balear, balera, Balfarg, belah, Belair, beliar, bhera, blaaa, Blaeu, blar, blarg, blarn, bleaf, bleah, blean, bleap, blearg, bleau, bleeg, bleerk, bleev, blerk, blir, Blitar, bloaf, bloar, blour, Bluemaq, Blyxa, Brear. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: abler, baler, blare. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-r" | |
-1 letter: able, bale, bare, bear, blae, brae, earl, lear, rale, real. | |
-2 letters: alb, ale, arb, are, bal, bar, bel, bra, ear, era, lab, lar, lea, reb. | |
-3 letters: ab, ae, al, ar, ba, be, el, er, la, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-r" | |
+1 letter: ambler, arable, bailer, balder, balers, balker, baller, barbel, barely, barley, barrel, bawler, blamer, blared, blares, blazer, blears, bleary, boreal, fabler, garble, herbal, labret, lamber, librae, marble, rabble, ramble, verbal, warble. | |
+2 letters: algebra, amblers, arables, babbler, baffler, bailers, balkers, balkier, ballers, balmier, barbell, barbels, barbule, barless, barleys, barrels, battler, bawlers, becrawl, bedrail, belabor, bilayer, blabber, blacker, bladder, blamers, blander, blanker, blarney, blaster, blather, blatter, blazers, bleaker, bleared, bleater, bloater, brabble, brailed, braille, braless, bramble, brattle, bravely, brawled, brawler, brawlie, caliber, calibre, clabber, clamber, curable, dabbler, drabble, dryable, durable, earlobe, enabler, fablers, friable, gabbler, gambler, gambrel, garbled, garbler, garbles, grabble, halberd, halbert, herbals, hirable, labeler, labored, laborer, labrets, lambers, lambert, lambier, liberal, librate, marbled, marbler, marbles, nebular, parable, puberal, rabbled, rabbler, rabbles, rambled, rambler, rambles, ratable, relabel, retable, ridable, ropable, rowable, rubella, rubeola, rulable, slabber, stabler, triable, verbals, wabbler, warbled, warbler, warbles, wirable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 65 61 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. . .- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l e a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0065 0061 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3678716784 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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