I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blurred outline (= unclear )
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Through the spaces between the bars he saw the blurred outline of the oil derrick high in the sky.
blur sb’s vision (= make someone not see clearly )
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Tears of fury blurred her vision, and she blinked them away.
blur the distinction between sth and sth (= make it less clear )
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Both sides in the war had been blurring the distinction between military and civilian targets.
blurred
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He was shown a blurred photograph, taken from a moving car.
blurred (= not clear )
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He complained of headaches and blurred vision.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Below, in the garden, she saw the blur of white.
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He was unbelievably quick, his hands, feet blurs in the high roof wind.
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It was a blur , his crying, just like when you go to a hospital to get stitches.
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Or perhaps this is just the wisdom of hindsight, a rosy blur of sentiment cast by nostalgia over the scene.
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She could see nothing except a vivid scarlet blur , the colour of a London bus.
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The rest of the tour goes by in a gray, drizzly blur .
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We are not content to leave the universe in a blur .
II. verb
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■ NOUN
boundary
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Even more than Sukenick's, Raymond Federman's novels repeatedly blur the boundaries between criticism and fiction.
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Because children blur the boundaries of self, men, who guard their boundaries so vigilantly, feel claustrophobic with them.
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He identifies the reasons for the emergence of the problem: Three factors have contributed to blurring these sector boundaries .
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The change process has also blurred the boundaries of the firm.
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In almost all areas of modern life, the internet revolution has smashed down barriers and blurred boundaries .
distinction
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It is easy to blur such distinctions .
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All around us, Negroponte says, computers are blurring the distinction between atoms and bits.
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These considerations tend to blur the distinction somewhat.
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They do not blur the distinction between testation and intestacy, but they mitigate it.
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The development of the concept of abuse of power blurred the distinction between merits and vires.
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And thirdly, by distributing company stock to employees it has blurred the capital-labour distinction in a number of firms.
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Mosley too became increasingly prone to blur the distinction between art, philosophy and life.
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Critical seminars within the university may sometimes blur this distinction if they contain elements of genuine intellectual exchange.
image
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Soft tears blurred the image in the mirror.
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I was facing a mirror that held my blurred image .
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Now blur the image slightly-most graphics editors will do this-and save it again with a different name.
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Many chronophotographs combined the virtues of both the blurred and the instantaneous image .
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It smooths or blurs the image so that local deviations from the overall trend are removed.
line
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Badu blurs the lines between art and artifice, plastic soul and raw feeling.
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Prince, and the artist formerly known as, has long blurred the lines between divinity and getting down.
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Warwick's opening gambit is to blur the line between consciousness and intelligence.
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This blurs the line between words and phrases.
lines
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Badu blurs the lines between art and artifice, plastic soul and raw feeling.
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Prince, and the artist formerly known as, has long blurred the lines between divinity and getting down.
vision
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She felt the anguished tears of motherhood blur her vision and blinked them away.
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After a few minutes of running through drills, the girls began to complain of headaches and blurred vision .
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Tears blurred her vision as she swung out, hammering on the horn.
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Frank slid into second base, wound up with blurred vision and missed the rest of the year.
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Instead of which she found herself having to blink away the sting of tears that blurred her vision .
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Sufferers also complain of headaches, intermittent blurred vision and vision sluggishness.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His novels tend to blur the distinctions between reality and fantasy.
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Problems with the mirrors blurred the telescope's view.
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The difference between male and female roles within the house has become blurred.
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The show blurs the difference between education and entertainment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In the above account the distinction between changes in money wages and changes in real wages has been deliberately blurred.
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Sin has certainly spoiled and blurred it, but man remains a reasoning, moral, creative creature.
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The glitter of the street-lights on the damp tarmac was blurred by the thickening fog.
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There was a lake and a sweep of land blurring into mountains.
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These all look like important questions but, once again, the methodology of state-centrism serves to blur rather than clarify the issues.