Definition of Blur

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Definition of Blur

Blur

To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink.

To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.

To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.

That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.

A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur.

A moral stain or blot.

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Blur Quotations

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.
Rob Zombie

The Universal view melts things into a blur.
Emile M. Cioran

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Arnold J. Toynbee

We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless.
Leo Kottke

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.
Graham Coxon

When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.
Graham Coxon

That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.
Kent McCord

I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.
Alvin Lee

The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.
John Yoo

Blur Translations

blur in Dutch is vervagen
blur in German is Verschleierung, Unklarheit
blur in Norwegian is dimme

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