Meaning

3 senses

  1. (intransitive)To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes.

  2. (transitive)To make (usually the eyes or eyesight) blurred or dim.

    затума́ниватьzatumánivatʹ

    make dim or indistinct

  3. (transitive)To blur, make blurry.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. After dropping a curtsey, she stood blinking at us with her bleared eyes and fumbling in her pocket with nervous, shaky fingers.

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  2. But Lia was blear-eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a beautiful countenance.

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Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
make blurred or dim:

Origin

From Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian.

From Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian.

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Forms

blears, blearing, bleared, bleared
Base formblear · to blear
3rd person singularblears
Present participleblearing
Past simplebleared
Past participlebleared

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyblear
he, she, itblears

Past simpleLesson

all personsbleared

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bleared
he, she, ithas bleared

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill blear

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • make dim or indistinct:blur

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bleachbleacherbleakbleatbleedB1
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