blur

Synonyms for blur

verb cloud, fog

verb. flaw, disfigure

verb. flaw, disfigure

noun. mark; flaw

noun. stigma

verb. become foggy or obscured

1540s, "smear on the surface of writing;" perhaps akin to blear. Extended sense of "confused dimness" is from 1860.

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.

Then, too, Standish was conscious of a vague cloud which had come up to blur their relationship.

Sometimes the green zone of the uplands was lost in a blur not of heat, but of fever.

Features that made definite lines, compelling lines, in the blur of other features.

A blur was there—something almost but not quite distinguishable.

Far in the distance there was a blur—Polter's reclining body.