blur

Meaning

1. To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
2. To smear, stain or smudge.
3. To become indistinct.
4. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
5. (obsolete) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
6. 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.

blot

obnubilate

film over

discolorise

discolorize

discolourise

be hazy

be misty

be dull

be dim

be indistinct

be obscure

be unclear

ambiguity

unable to see distinctly

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈblɜː(ɹ)/

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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