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unblur

unblur verb: to remove blurring from (an image).

Verb

unblur (third-person singular simple present unblurs, present participle unblurring, simple past and past participle unblurred)

  1. (transitive) To remove blurring from (an image).
    • The police unblurred the suspect's photograph when the injunction against revealing his identity was lifted.
    • It's actually doing a reasonable job of unblurring the artificially blurred image with only a few defects. The Motion Blur option is using a deconvolution algorithm to reverse the effects of the convolution […]2009, Bruce Fraser, Jeff Schewe, Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom

Forms of unblur

third-person singular presentunblurs
present participleunblurring
past participleunblurred
pastunblurred

Origin of unblur

From un- + blur.

Questions about unblur

What does unblur mean?
Unblur means to remove blurring from (an image).
What part of speech is unblur?
Unblur is a verb.
What is the past tense of unblur?
The past tense of unblur is unblurred.

Words near unblur in the dictionary

  1. unbluffed
  2. unbluing
  3. unblundered
  4. unblundering
  5. unblunted
  6. unblur
  7. unblurred
  8. unblurring
  9. unblurry
  10. unblurs
  11. unblush

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