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To make indistinct and hazy in outline or appearance; obscure.
(verb-transitive)
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To smear or stain; smudge.
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To lessen the perception of; dim: "For street children . . . drugs offer the chance to blur their hopeless poverty” ( Alma Guillermoprieto).
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To become indistinct.
(verb-intransitive)
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To make smudges or stains by smearing.
(verb-intransitive)
American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.