blur

(Anglais)

Verb

1. To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
2. To smear, stain or smudge.
3. (intransitive) To become indistinct.
4. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
6. (transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
7. To use a sign, image, expression, etc. sufficiently close to a trademarked one that it causes confusion between them.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A smear, smudge or blot.
2. (countable, uncountable) Something that appears hazy or indistinct.
3. (uncountable) Haziness, blurriness.
4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A moral stain or blot.

Adj

Lacking awareness; clueless or confused.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈblɜː(ɹ)/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: bleren

Hérité de ancien anglais: *blerian

Appartenant à écossais: blore

Appartenant à bas-allemand: bleeroged

In summary

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.

Concepts

brouiller

estomper

flou

tache

pâté

marque

masse

se répandre

suinter

tacher

embuer

image floue

mâchurer

masse confuse

rendre flou

salissure

s’estomper

se déteindre

tache d'encre

s'estomper

barbouiller

flouter

baver

couler

lubrifier

maculer

Synonymes

blot

dim

obscure

stain

haze

spot

confuse

smear

smudge

fog

🌫️

fuzz

cloud

☁️

mist

run

obnubilate

glaze over

slur

indistinctness

bedaub

benight

dimness

obfuscate

dusk

blear

fade

film over

smirch

smut

blemish

speck

fuzziness

splotch

spread

fuzzy

turbidness

bedim

imbrue

smutch

sully

taint

turbidity

discolorise

discolorize

discolourise

be hazy

be misty

be dull

be dim

be indistinct

be obscure

Traductions

vervagen

entelar

borrón

verschwimmen

empañar

desdibuixar

entelar-se

borrão

difuminar

desdibuixar-se

verwischen

verschleiern

θάμπωμα

confondere

verwackeln