to blur
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3.6
- verb
- /blɜr/
:
desdibujar
- As Borgman concludes, the boundaries are blurring between the sciences and the humanities.
- blur the distinction
- blur the boundaries
- blur the line
I don't know what it is, but it just blurs you so beautifully.
- I don't know what it is, but it just blurs you so beautifully.
- This is a true smoothing blurring powder foundation.
- It completely blurs out the look of pores.
- We don't have to blur that, do we?
- You know, the numbers start to blur and not mean much.
- So OK, so we'll talk about different ways of blurring, pre sampling, filtering.
Examples
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Sometimes in our work, as in life, the lines between comfort and love are blurred.
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Instead, the atmosphere will inevitably blur the image of the object you wish to study.
Academic text (1990) -
All the faces are starting to blur together.
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Therefore, NATO and EU policy sought to blur the lines between members, potential future members, and partners.
Academic text (2008) -
Within years, the lines between legend and history blurred.
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His dominant influence in both spheres greatly blurred the lines of authority between them.
Academic text (2011) -
Publishers have been blurring the lines between straight nonfiction and fiction texts for years.
Academic text (2013) -
Hierarchical lines of authority were blurred, and the flow of information was severely disrupted.
Academic text (1990) -
The rain started to fall, causing the view through the window to blur significantly.
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She tried to focus on the text, but her tired eyes began to blur the words.
Synonyms
266
1.9
Make someone unable to think clearly or make something hard to understand
86
7.0
Make something hard to see or understand
30
3.7
To make something dirty or blurred by rubbing
18
4.4
Make something less clear or more confusing
7
5.2
To make something hard to see or understand
6
5.5
To become less clear and harder to remember
2
5.6
To make an image or sound unclear
1
6.1
To make an outline, sound, or feeling less clear
Make something unclear or hard to understand
To make the outline or image faint and hard to see
To make something, like light and memory, less bright or clear
To make something hard to see or understand
To make a photo or image blurry by not adjusting the camera lens
Make the view hard to see because of fog or smoke
To make the edges of things look dim or blurred
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How Obscuring
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Etymology
To blur (as a verb) carries the same idea: to 'smear' lines or colours so they lose shape, which is why to blur something is to make it unclear or hard to understand.