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[ UK /blˈɜː/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫɝ/ ]
VERB
  1. become vague or indistinct
    The distinction between the two theories blurred
  2. become glassy; lose clear vision
    Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep
  3. make dim or indistinct
    The fog blurs my vision
  4. make a smudge on; soil by smudging
  5. make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
    Her remarks confused the debate
    Their words obnubilate their intentions
  6. to make less distinct or clear
    The haze blurs the hills
NOUN
  1. a hazy or indistinct representation
    he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz
    it happened so fast it was just a blur
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  • This puts a lot of stress on our eyes which can suffer from blurriness, fatigue etc. Glasses Lot | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • A new maximum a posteriori (MAP) super-resolution algorithm is proposed to reduce the complexity of blur parameter adjustment and the iterative computation load.
  • A new maximum a posteriori (MAP) super-resolution algorithm is proposed to reduce the complexity of blur parameter adjustment and the iterative computation load.
  • And the fact is that women just dig men who see clips of defenseless mother pigs stuffed in crates so small that they can't turn around, and then blurt out, "But, I love me some bacon! Josh Tetrick: Five Reasons Why Man = Meat
  • So you blurb the writer rather than the book, so you just know that that's going to be the one they stick on the cover.
  • The markings are so blurred that it is difficult to identify.
  • Brick with blurred colors or flecks of color in earthy tones of red, brown, black and buff appear completely at home in a rustic setting.
  • Like the invitation to run together, he blurted out such things as if he were completely unaware of how they might be interpreted, with a guileless innocence that couldn't help but put me at ease.
  • We have all been guilty of it: blurring the lines between reality and fiction.
  • However I did notice something, and it was something that both my wife and father both brought up, there was a strange effect that wasn't there at the World Première, something I described as a fogging or blurring during some scenes, particularly the action ones, which made it hard to follow the action. Filmstalker: Avatar: An Xmas visit
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