😠 An insult 🗣️ To speak unclearly 🎼 A smooth line 🎼 To play smoothly 😠 To insult

to slur

7.0

To play notes smoothly so they join without a break

verb
/slɜr/

Specialized

: ligar (notas)

Eliminate all articulations, and slur the passage at a slower tempo. Looping Repetition

Examples

Rather than slurring groups of notes as written (Figure 4), students have begun to slur parts of this phrase, seemingly without attention to Ticheli's markings.

Academic text (2012)
Until he does ... like we're gonna slur some high notes.

Fiction book (1993)
In the performance, the musician skillfully slurred the notes to create a smooth melody.
To improve her singing, she practiced slurring the notes without any breaks between them.
During the lesson, the teacher advised the students to slur the passage for a more connected sound.

Phrasal Verbs

to slur over

7.9

To deal with a subject quickly and without enough detail

Compounds

ethnic slur

Offensive

3 9.9

An insulting word used to hurt people because of their race or nationality

offensive slur

Slur

1 9.5

A rude word or phrase that insults people for being in a certain group

How Smooth

to slur

Specialized

7.0

to connect

278 1.1

separate

829 2.1

Surface Forms

slur infinitive

slurred past

slurred past participle

slurring present participle

slurs third person singular

Etymology

Slur as a musical verb means to 'slide' between notes so the sound is smooth and joined rather than separate. That's why musicians say to slur notes when they want a connected, flowing sound.