Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to slur
Participle: slurred
Gerund: slurring
Indicative
Present
| I | slur |
| you | slur |
| he;she;it | slurs |
| we | slur |
| you | slur |
| they | slur |
Perfect
| I | have slurred |
| you | have slurred |
| he;she;it | has slurred |
| we | have slurred |
| you | have slurred |
| they | have slurred |
Past
| I | slurred |
| you | slurred |
| he;she;it | slurred |
| we | slurred |
| you | slurred |
| they | slurred |
Pluperfect
| I | had slurred |
| you | had slurred |
| he;she;it | had slurred |
| we | had slurred |
| you | had slurred |
| they | had slurred |
Future
| I | will slur |
| you | will slur |
| he;she;it | will slur |
| we | will slur |
| you | will slur |
| they | will slur |
Future Perfect
| I | will have slurred |
| you | will have slurred |
| he;she;it | will have slurred |
| we | will have slurred |
| you | will have slurred |
| they | will have slurred |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | slur |
| you | slur |
| he;she;it | slur |
| we | slur |
| you | slur |
| they | slur |
Perfect
| I | have slurred |
| you | have slurred |
| he;she;it | have slurred |
| we | have slurred |
| you | have slurred |
| they | have slurred |
Imperfect
| I | slurred |
| you | slurred |
| he;she;it | slurred |
| we | slurred |
| you | slurred |
| they | slurred |
Pluperfect
| I | had slurred |
| you | had slurred |
| he;she;it | had slurred |
| we | had slurred |
| you | had slurred |
| they | had slurred |
Conditional
Present
| I | would slur |
| you | would slur |
| he;she;it | would slur |
| we | would slur |
| you | would slur |
| they | would slur |
Perfect
| I | would have slurred |
| you | would have slurred |
| he;she;it | would have slurred |
| we | would have slurred |
| you | would have slurred |
| they | would have slurred |
Imperative
| you | slur |
| we | Let's slur |
| you | slur |
Verbs conjugated like 'slur'
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 'slur'
blur,
scur,
slub,
slug,
slum,
slurp,
slut,
smur,
sour,
spur,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to make physically dirty
- assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, bedizen, befile, befoul, begrime, beray, besully, bewray, blacken, blot, blur, contaminate, darken, denigrate, dirty, drag through the mud, dull, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, pollute, sling mud, slotter, smutch, soss, sowl, spot, stain, sullow, taint, tarnish, uggle
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”). The ultimate origin is uncertain, but perhaps related to a group of words derived from Proto-Germanic *slūm- (“loose, slack, flabby”), such as slumber.
2. Cognate with Middle Low German sluren (“to trail in mud”). Also related to dialectal Norwegian sløra (“to be careless, to scamp, dawdle”), Danish sløre (“to wobble, be loose”) (especially for wheels); compare Old Norse slóðra (“to drag oneself along”).
3. * (an extremely offensive term): Influenced by various compounds of sense 1 such as racial slur, ethnic slur, etc. See: Danish '
sløre'.
Sample Sentences
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And how men slur him, saying all his force / Is melted into mere effeminacy? [1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 6:]
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to slur syllables; He slurs his speech when he is drunk.
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"Thank you for your donation," the girl says, slurring the words together into a single syllable. [1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 182:]
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Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. [2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:]
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Notes , the stems of which are joined together by cross lines, as in united quavers , semiquavers , & c . or notes over the heads of which a curve is drawn, to signify that they are to be slurred [1817, Thomas Busby, A Dictionary of Music, Theoretical and Practical:]
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they do not only impudently slur the gospel, according to the history and the letter, in making it no better than a romantical legend[…] [1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:]
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With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes. [1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The First Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:]
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to slur men of what they fought for [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:]