Definitions for blear

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Spelling: [bleer]
IPA: /blɪər/

Blear is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in blear (abelr).

Definitions for blear

noun

  1. a blur; cloudiness; dimness:

adjective

  1. (of the eyes) dim from tears.
  2. dim; indistinct.

verb (used with object)

  1. to make dim, as with tears or inflammation:

Origin of blear

1250-1300; Middle English bleri, blere (v.), blere (adj.)

Examples for blear

In simple chronic ophthalmia, blear eyes, &c., also to remove particles of lime from the eyes.

Mrs. Kebby's blear eyes lighted up, and she leered amiably at the couple.

Idiots, with blear eyes and protending under-lips, gibbered and whined.

The dogs were nearly as furious as the night before, and the day's eye was blear.

The door was flung wide from within, and the blear eyes of Nicol peered out into the night-light.

blear eyes, sore faces, and sore feet were almost universal.

As the direfulness of it all crept over him, something very like anger gleamed through the blear of his faded eyes.

Monsieur in a greasy green dressing-gown odorous of tobacco, swearing at a boy with blear eyes,—a scene-shifter.

He gazed with an open mouth and puzzled, blear eyes at the woman before him.

"You bet I c'n answer," said Alf bravely, blinking his blear eyes.

Word Value for blear
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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