: characterized by dimness, indistinctness, or obscurity
the blurred names on the gravestones
: lacking clarity or sharpness : blurry
a blurred photograph
blurred vision
blurredly
adverb
I am being lifted into the air—and even as I pant and stare blurredly, limply, mindlessly, a map appears, of the dark ground where I ran …
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Harold Brodkey
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The exhausted teen has headaches and blurred vision sleeps about 75% of the day.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
In this photo illustration, a person holds a smartphone displaying the ChatGPT logo on its screen in front of a blurred OpenAI logo on August 9, 2025 in Chongqing, China.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
In one shot, Venus is reborn, dark and pregnant against a background of blurred blue.
—Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2025
The Drowned Lands Brewery Warwick, New York Inside The Drowned Lands’s expansive taproom, the lines between inside and outside feel softened, almost blurred.
—Kate Bernot, Outside, 29 Aug. 2025
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Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
In this photo illustration, a person holds a smartphone displaying the ChatGPT logo on its screen in front of a blurred OpenAI logo on August 9, 2025 in Chongqing, China.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
In one shot, Venus is reborn, dark and pregnant against a background of blurred blue.
—Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2025
The Drowned Lands Brewery Warwick, New York Inside The Drowned Lands’s expansive taproom, the lines between inside and outside feel softened, almost blurred.
—Kate Bernot, Outside, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Blurred.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blurred. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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