| Noun | 1. | blur - a hazy or indistinct representation; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz" | |
| Verb | 1. | blur - become glassy; lose clear vision; "Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep" | |
| 2. | blur - to make less distinct or clear; "The haze blurs the hills"alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" focus - cause to converge on or toward a central point; "Focus the light on this image" | |
| 3. | blur - make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" confuse, confound - mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary" confuse - make unclear or incomprehensible; "The new tax return forms only confuse" muddy - cause to become muddy; "These data would have muddied the prediction" | |
| 4. | blur - make a smudge on; soil by smudgingrub - move over something with pressure; "rub my hands"; "rub oil into her skin" dust - rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape; "The artist dusted the charcoal drawing down to a faint image" | |
| 5. | blur - make dim or indistinct; "The drug blurs my vision"alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" | |
| 6. | blur - become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred"weaken - become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" efface, obliterate - remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps" | |