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Meanings of blur in English

Portuguese
embaçar
Catalan
desdibuixar
Spanish
nublar

Become vague or indistinct.

      Related terms
      embaçar
      Portuguese
      obnubilar
      Catalan
      confondre
      Spanish
      hacer confuso

      Make unclear, indistinct, or blurred.

            obnubilar
            Portuguese
            desfocar
            Catalan
            velar-se
            Spanish
            velarse

            Become glassy; lose clear vision.

                  desfocar
                  Portuguese
                  borrão
                  Spanish
                  borrón

                  A hazy or indistinct representation.

                        borrão
                        Usage of blur in English
                        1
                        The lines between the two continue to blur with every passing week.
                        The Irish Times
                        2
                        We may start to blur the lines between work and leisure time.
                        The South African
                        3
                        This young Philly native sure must be a blur of activity onstage.
                        Reuters
                        4
                        The global chip leader said Tokyo's export curbs would blur its outlook.
                        Reuters
                        5
                        In Berlin it was a blur of static; here, it was clear.
                        Fatherland
                        6
                        Mikhail wasn't sure exactly when it happened, because it was a blur.
                        The Wolf’s Hour
                        7
                        The next two weeks were a blur, broken bodies and long hours.
                        An impartial witness: a bess crawford mystery
                        8
                        Behind it the mountain loomed, a dark blur in the gray-white world.
                        The Lookout Man
                        9
                        The faint shadow reached the black blur of the horses and disappeared.
                        The Texan Star: The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty
                        10
                        But scientists didn't know how biological visual systems estimate blur so well.
                        Wired
                        11
                        But a dramatic change risks turning it into nothing but a blur.
                        Reuters
                        12
                        Whatever they use to blur sight of their towns survived the bombardment.
                        Beyond The Frontier: Dreadnaught
                        13
                        For seventeen years I'd lived in a blur of terror and fear.
                        Escape
                        14
                        A strange blur came over everything; the sense of reality was lost.
                        Peter Ibbetson
                        15
                        There seemed to be no face; just the blur of something brownish.
                        Wandl the Invader
                        16
                        Through the blur, she read the computer's final summation one more time.
                        The god project
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                        Translations for blur
                        Blur through the time
                        Blur across language varieties
                        United States of America
                        Common
                        Australia
                        Common
                        Ireland
                        Common
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