Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to blur
Participle: blurred
Gerund: blurring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | blur |
| you | blur |
| he;she;it | blurs |
| we | blur |
| you | blur |
| they | blur |
Perfect
| I | have blurred |
| you | have blurred |
| he;she;it | has blurred |
| we | have blurred |
| you | have blurred |
| they | have blurred |
Past
| I | blurred |
| you | blurred |
| he;she;it | blurred |
| we | blurred |
| you | blurred |
| they | blurred |
Pluperfect
| I | had blurred |
| you | had blurred |
| he;she;it | had blurred |
| we | had blurred |
| you | had blurred |
| they | had blurred |
Future
| I | will blur |
| you | will blur |
| he;she;it | will blur |
| we | will blur |
| you | will blur |
| they | will blur |
Future Perfect
| I | will have blurred |
| you | will have blurred |
| he;she;it | will have blurred |
| we | will have blurred |
| you | will have blurred |
| they | will have blurred |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | blur |
| you | blur |
| he;she;it | blur |
| we | blur |
| you | blur |
| they | blur |
Perfect
| I | have blurred |
| you | have blurred |
| he;she;it | have blurred |
| we | have blurred |
| you | have blurred |
| they | have blurred |
Imperfect
| I | blurred |
| you | blurred |
| he;she;it | blurred |
| we | blurred |
| you | blurred |
| they | blurred |
Pluperfect
| I | had blurred |
| you | had blurred |
| he;she;it | had blurred |
| we | had blurred |
| you | had blurred |
| they | had blurred |
Conditional
Present
| I | would blur |
| you | would blur |
| he;she;it | would blur |
| we | would blur |
| you | would blur |
| they | would blur |
Perfect
| I | would have blurred |
| you | would have blurred |
| he;she;it | would have blurred |
| we | would have blurred |
| you | would have blurred |
| they | would have blurred |
Imperative
| you | blur |
| we | Let's blur |
| you | blur |
Verbs conjugated like 'blur'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'blur'
blub,
blue,
blurb,
blurr,
blurt,
slur,
alum,
bar,
bauf,
bear,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to make physically dirty
- assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, bedizen, befile, befoul, begrime, beray, besully, bewray, blacken, blot, contaminate, darken, denigrate, dirty, drag through the mud, dull, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, pollute, sling mud, slotter, slur, smutch, soss, sowl, spot, stain, sullow, taint, tarnish, uggle
- smudge
- smear, flash, obfuscate, blear, dim, obscure, cloud
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From earlier blurre, probably an alteration of blear, from Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian (attested in āblered (“made bare, made bald”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *blazjaną (“to make pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“pale”). Compare Scots blore, bloar (“to blur, cover with blots”), Low German bleeroged (“blear-eyed”). More at blear.
Sample Sentences
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to blur a photograph (by moving the camera while taking it)
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As we saw in the case of Lukács, it is characteristic of this tradition to blur the distinction between foreseeing the future and creating it. [1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 435:]
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to blur a manuscript (by handling it while damp)
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His eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare. [1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay:]
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Sarcasms may eclipse thine own, / But cannot blur my lost renown. [1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:]
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Then give this box focus to blur the first one: […] [2003, John Pollock, JavaScript: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition, page 175:]
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These form elements need to have an onFocus event handler to blur the current focus. [2001, Martin Webb, Michel Plungjan, Keith Drakard, Instant JavaScript, page 678:]
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Blurring one window and focusing on another window yields the same result of sending the window to the back of the pile. [2007, Danny Goodman, JavaScript Bible, page 273:]
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A manual way to blur a text object is to press the Tab key, which advances focus to the next field in order and removes it from the current field (blurring it). [2010, Chuck Easttom, Advanced JavaScript, page 329:]