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Blur   /blər/   Listen
Blur

noun
1.
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)
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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"Blur" Quotes from Famous Books



... engine awoke to life and the propeller spun around, a blur of indistinctness. The motor was working sweetly. Toni throttled down, assured himself that everything was working well, and then, with a wave of his hand toward Jack, began to taxi across the field, to head up into the wind. All aeroplanes are started ...
— Air Service Boys in the Big Battle • Charles Amory Beach
... I forgive, I forget Life's hoard of regret — All the terror and pain Of the chafing chain. Grind on, O cities, grind: I leave you a blur behind. I am lifted elate — the skies expand: Here the world's heaped gold is a pile of sand. Let them weary and work in their narrow walls: I ride with the ...
— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
... this and that without incorporating any supreme devotion in their blood, our cosmopolites and expatriates and intellectuals, froth of a too comfortable existence, give forth a hollow sound at the savage touch of war. They become pacifists. They can see neither good nor evil: all is a vague blur of "humanity." ...
— The World Decision • Robert Herrick
... blur of black on the edge of the night sky? Were these the lofty arches of an immense bridge? What river did it span? Why was it broken down in parts? No, it was not a bridge, it was an ancient aqueduct. All around was the holy ground of ...
— Dream Tales and Prose Poems • Ivan Turgenev
... absolute that what most modern writers would regard as the illogical dreams of superannuated eccentrics he is inclined to treat with smiling reverence and infinite sympathy. Where the whole terrestrial business is only a meaningless blur upon the face of nothingness, why should we not linger by the way, under elm trees, or upon broken fragments of old temples, or on sunny benches in cloistered gardens, and listen to the arbitrary fancies of unpractical and incompetent persons whose countenances express an "audace craintive" and ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys


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