blur

verb blurs · blurring · blurred

1. To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim. to blur a photograph (by moving the camera while taking it)

   Similar: fuzz, pixelate, smooth

2. To smear, stain or smudge. to blur a manuscript (by handling it while damp)

   Similar: besmear, blot, tarnish, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, befoul

3. intransitive To become indistinct.
4. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken. His eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare.
5. obsolete, transitive To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation. Sarcasms may eclipse thine own, / But cannot blur my lost renown.

   Similar: blemish, libel, slander, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel, besmirch, besmear, bewray

6. transitive To transfer the input focus away from. Then give this box focus to blur the first one: […]

   Similar: unfocus

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

Opposite: sharpen

noun blurs

1. countable, uncountable A smear, smudge or blot.
2. countable, uncountable Something that appears hazy or indistinct. The surroundings went by in a blur.
3. uncountable Haziness, blurriness. Unfortunately, a small artificial pupil also tends to increase the amount of diffraction somewhat, but this increase in blur is considerably smaller than the decrease that results from the control of other factors.
4. countable, obsolete, uncountable A moral stain or blot. […]with her raillyng sette a great blurre on myne honesty

adjective more blur · most blur

1. Manglish, Singlish Lacking awareness; clueless or confused. If a Singaporean gets frustrated at your stupidity, he can scold you for being blur as sotong (clueless as a squid).