Definitions for blur

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IPA: /blɜr/

Blur is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in blur (blru).

Definitions for blur

noun

1. a smudge or smear that obscures:
2. a blurred condition; indistinctness:
3. something seen indistinctly:

verb (used with object)

1. to obscure or sully (something) by smearing or with a smeary substance:
2. to obscure by making confused in form or outline; make indistinct:
3. to dim the perception or susceptibility of; make dull or insensible:

verb (used without object)

1. to become indistinct:
2. to make blurs.

Origin of blur

First recorded in 1540-50; akin to blear

Examples for blur

Couture Week in Paris is a blur of highly-priced luxury, some of it luxe, some of it trashy-looking.

As pioneers of experiential art, the duo wanted to blur the lines between reality and cartoonish fantasy.

We had a chance to blur it, but you really need to feel the pain.

The girl's dress remained a spot of cheerful color; her face was a blur.

A face was there—a man with a blur of opalescent light behind him.

Page after page of the neatest of minute figures, not a blot, not a blur, not an erasure.

The propeller vanished in a blur as Jeter let the motor out.

Time will blur the incongruities and moss over the mistakes.

“It was like a blur,” Schottel told The Daily Beast on Wednesday.

The blur proved to be from 12 hours after the incident anyway.