Usually means: Making images or shapes unclear.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word blur:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. blur: Merriam-Webster
  2. blur: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blur: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blur: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blur: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blur, blur: Wordnik
  7. blur: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. blur: Wiktionary
  9. blur: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. blur: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. blur: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Blur, blur: Dictionary.com
  13. blur: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. blur: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Blur (Blur album), Blur (Rachael Lampa album), Blur (album), Blur (band), Blur (game), Blur (video game), Blur: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Blur: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. blur: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. blur: Rhymezone
  19. blur: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. blur: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. blur: FreeDictionary.org
  22. blur: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. blur: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. blur: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Blur (disambiguation), blur: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blur: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Blur (disambiguation), blur: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Blur, blur, the blur: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  2. Blur: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  3. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
verb:  To smear, stain or smudge.
verb:  (intransitive) To become indistinct.
verb:  To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
verb:  (graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
verb:  (copyright law) To use a sign, image, expression, etc. sufficiently close to a trademarked one that it causes confusion between them.
noun:  A smear, smudge or blot.
noun:  Something that appears hazy or indistinct.
noun:  (uncountable) Haziness, blurriness.
noun:  (obsolete) A moral stain or blot.
adjective:  (Singlish, Manglish) Lacking awareness; clueless or confused.

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