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blurring

blurring is the present participle and gerund of blur.

Meaning of blur

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...
  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

See all 12 meanings of blur

Noun

blurring (plural blurrings)

  1. A blurry patch.
    • Several attempts were made to remove the blurrings in the tomograms.1990, Donald O. Thompson, Dale E. Chimenti, Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation
    • What's interesting is ambiguity. What's interesting is the haziness, the blurrings, the undefinables, the space and tension between people, the area between the margins that pushes us to stop, to question.2006, Sean Lennon, Paul Spickard, Kip Fulbeck, Part Asian, 100 Per Cent Hapa

Forms of blurring

pluralblurrings

Phrases with blurring

Questions about blurring

What does blurring mean?
Blurring means a blurry patch.
What is blurring the present participle and gerund of?
Blurring is the present participle and gerund of blur.
What part of speech is blurring?
Blurring is a noun.
What is the plural of blurring?
The plural of blurring is blurrings.

Words near blurring in the dictionary

  1. blurrier
  2. blurriest
  3. blurrily
  4. blurriness
  5. blurrinesses
  6. blurring
  7. blurring the line
  8. blurring the lines
  9. blurringly
  10. blurrings
  11. blurrs

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