| Pronunciation: | | bleer
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- [adj] tired to the point of exhaustion
- [v] make dim or indistinct; "The drug blurs my vision"
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| | Synonyms: | | blear-eyed, bleary, bleary-eyed, blur, tired |
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| | Antonyms: | | focalise, focalize, focus, sharpen |
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| | See Also: | | alter, change, dim, slur |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Blear\, a. [See {Blear}, v.]
1. Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes.
His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin. --Dryden.
2. Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim.
Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion.
--Milton.
\Blear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bleared}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Blearing}.] [OE. bleren; cf. Dan. plire to blink, Sw. plira
to twinkle, wink, LG. plieren; perh. from the same root as E.
blink. See {Blink}, and cf. {Blur}.]
To make somewhat sore or watery, as the eyes; to dim, or
blur, as the sight. Figuratively: To obscure (mental or moral
perception); to blind; to hoodwink.
That tickling rheums Should ever tease the lungs and
blear the sight. --Cowper.
{To blear the eye of}, to deceive; to impose upon. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
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