Antonyms for blur
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : blur |
| Phonetic Transcription : blÉœr |
Definition of blur
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
- The girl's dress remained a spot of cheerful color; her face was a blur.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- A face was there—a man with a blur of opalescent light behind him.
- Extract from : « The World Beyond » by Raymond King Cummings
- Page after page of the neatest of minute figures, not a blot, not a blur, not an erasure.
- Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
- The propeller vanished in a blur as Jeter let the motor out.
- Extract from : « Lords of the Stratosphere » by Arthur J. Burks
- Time will blur the incongruities and moss over the mistakes.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- Then, too, Standish was conscious of a vague cloud which had come up to blur their relationship.
- Extract from : « Rope » by Holworthy Hall
- Sometimes the green zone of the uplands was lost in a blur not of heat, but of fever.
- Extract from : « Sacrifice » by Stephen French Whitman
- Features that made definite lines, compelling lines, in the blur of other features.
- Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht
- A blur was there—something almost but not quite distinguishable.
- Extract from : « Beyond the Vanishing Point » by Raymond King Cummings
- Far in the distance there was a blur—Polter's reclining body.
- Extract from : « Beyond the Vanishing Point » by Raymond King Cummings
Synonyms for blur
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