blear
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(of eyes or vision) Dim; unclear from water or rheum.
- 2.
Causing or caused by dimness of sight.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes.
18th c., attributed to Jonathan Swift, “The Story of Orpheus, Burlesqued,” in Walter Scott (ed.), The Works of Jonathan Swift, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 2nd edition, 1883, Volume 10, p. 403, Orpheus, a one-eyed blearing Thracian, The crowder of that barb’rous nation, Was ballad-singer by vocation;
1917, Madge Morris, The “Red Wind Blows” in The Lure of the Desert Land and Other Poems, San Francisco: Har Wagner, p. 83, Let loose thy snow-winged dove, to rise And fly across the seething blood-mad world. To flutter over fields where that dread Silence is! To light on upturned faces blearing at the skies And curiously peck at dead men’s eyes.
- 2.
(transitive)To make (usually the eyes or eyesight) blurred or dim.
your ſelf you cannot ſo diſguiſe:
- 3.
(transitive)(transitive, of an image) To blur, make blurry.
1888, David Atwood Wasson, “Babes of God” Part II in Poems, Boston: Lee & Shepard, p. 36, Now, one among the foremost, looking up By chance, with horror saw, in farthest sky Fronting their course, a troublous film of cloud,— A strange, dark, troublous film of cloud,— Blearing the beauty of the crystal wall.
- 4.
(alt of, alternative)Alternative form of blare
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From Middle English blere, related to bleeroged, blerre, Blerre. Perhaps also related to blur.