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Grammar : Verb
Spell : blur
Phonetic Transcription : blɜr



Definition of blurring

Origin :
  • 1540s, "smear on the surface of writing;" perhaps akin to blear. Extended sense of "confused dimness" is from 1860.
  • verb cloud, fog
  • verb make dirty
Example sentences :
  • When their giddiness abated, there were blurring views again.
  • Extract from : « The Einstein See-Saw » by Miles John Breuer
  • At this thought she wept, not for him so much as for the blurring of her remembrance of him.
  • Extract from : « Sacrifice » by Stephen French Whitman
  • The sunshine gave no pleasure, only a blurring of his sight.
  • Extract from : « The Dragon Painter » by Mary McNeil Fenollosa
  • Everything was dreamlike, blurring as though unconsciousness was upon me.
  • Extract from : « Wandl the Invader » by Raymond King Cummings
  • And yet, the blurring of his memory was not too inexplicable.
  • Extract from : « The Brentons » by Anna Chapin Ray
  • The unpainted buildings danced in it, blurring with the heat waves.
  • Extract from : « Desert Conquest » by A. M. Chisholm
  • The lamp was directly behind her and she could not see for blurring.
  • Extract from : « Stubble » by George Looms
  • His eyes dimmed with salt tears, blurring the splendid scene.
  • Extract from : « The U.P. Trail » by Zane Grey
  • His image grew dim like the blurring of his voice by pain and the shadow of death.
  • Extract from : « Linda Condon » by Joseph Hergesheimer
  • Ostensibly he was painting her, but the mood escaped him and he was blurring in a background.
  • Extract from : « Rose MacLeod » by Alice Brown

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