blurr

Verb

blur (third-person singular simple present blurs, present participle blurring, simple past and past participle blurred)

1. To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
   • to blur a photograph (by moving the camera while taking it)

   Synonyms:

   fuzz, pixelate, smooth

2. To smear, stain or smudge.
   • to blur a manuscript (by handling it while damp)

   Synonyms:

   besmear, blot, tarnish, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile

3. (intransitive) To become indistinct.
4. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
   • His eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare.1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay
5. (obsolete, transitive) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
   • Sarcasms may eclipse thine own, / But cannot blur my lost renown.1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished...

   Synonyms:

   blemish, libel, slander, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel, besmirch

6. (transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
   • Then give this box focus to blur the first one: […]2003, John Pollock, JavaScript: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition, page 175

   Synonyms:

   unfocus

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