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Blear

Definitions: Blear

Blear

Adjective

1. Tired to the point of exhaustion.

Verb

1. 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: Blear

Synonyms: blear-eyed (adj), bleary (adj), bleary-eyed (adj), blur (v). (additional references)
Antonym: focus (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Blear

English words defined with "blear": Bleared, BlearingTo blear the eye of. (references)

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Expressions: Blear

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.

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Modern Translations: Blear

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

тусклый (bleary, dim, dingy, dull, faint, fishy, glazy, lackluster, lacklustre, mat, muddy, obscure, pale, sad, sunless, wan), затуманенный (befogged, bleary, cloudy, misty). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

sreamach (blear-eyed, corrugated). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

nublar (bedim, befog, mist), difuminar (blur). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

inhöljd. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukranian 

  

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)

   

Vietnamese 

  

u mê (muddle-headed). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

pw+l (blunt, dim, dull, obtuse), dyfriog (aquatic), dolurus (sore). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Blear

Derivations

Words beginning with "blear": bleared, blearier, bleariest, blearily, bleariness, blearinesses, blearing, blears, bleary. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Blear

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Blear


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 6C 65 61 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-..    .    .-    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#101 &#97 &#114

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3678716784

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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