Meaning

7 senses
  1. To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.

    to blur a photograph (by moving the camera while taking it)

    verschwimmen, verwischen

    разма́затьrazmázatʹ

    розте́ртиroztérty

    make dim or indistinct

  2. To smear, stain or smudge.

    to blur a manuscript (by handling it while damp)

    verschmieren

    make a smudge on; soil by smudging

  3. (intransitive)To become indistinct.

    verschwimmen

    become vague or indistinct

  4. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.

  5. (transitive)To transfer the input focus away from.

    unscharf machen

  6. To use a sign, image, expression, etc. sufficiently close to a trademarked one that it causes confusion between them.

  7. (obsolete, transitive)To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.

Examples

46 sentences
  1. The days began to blur together.

    ruДни начали сливаться друг с другом.

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  2. It still seems like a blur.

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  3. The next three months were a blur.

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  4. The next three minutes were a blur.

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  5. That whole week was just a blur.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim:
Русский
By meaning 1
make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim:
smear, stain or smudge:
to transfer the input focus away from:

Origin

From earlier blurre, probably an alteration of blear, from Middle English bleren, from Old

From earlier blurre, probably an alteration of blear, from Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian (attested in āblered (“made bare, made bald”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *blazjaną (“to make pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“pale”). Compare Scots blore, bloar (“to blur, cover with blots”), Low German bleeroged (“blear-eyed”). More at blear.

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Forms

blurs, blurring, blurred, blurred
Base formblur · to blur
3rd person singularblurs
Present participleblurring
Past simpleblurred
Past participleblurred

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyblur
he, she, itblurs

Past simpleLesson

all personsblurred

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill blur

Synonyms

114 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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