Blur

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1. Verb

To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink.

2. Verb

To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.

3. Verb

To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.

4. Noun

That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.

5. Noun

A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur.

6. Noun

A moral stain or blot.

7. Noun

a hazy or indistinct representation; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz"
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