: 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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If key video gets deleted, faces stay blurred or the account information leads nowhere, a high-tech getaway car may still leave police with very old-fashioned detective work.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026
Sequence unraveled, and with it the onward rush, progression, the sense of one event coming after another; my understanding of cause and effect, of the chronological chopping-up of time both personal and historical—before and after, premodern and modern—all blurred, folded, unraveled out of reach.
—Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
Doctors advise not to ignore symptoms like persistent redness, pain or blurred vision.
—Gabby Sartori, USA Today, 16 June 2026
Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome affects the kidneys and causes a wide range of symptoms, including blurred vision, low blood pressure, acute shock, internal bleeding and kidney failure.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026
Sequence unraveled, and with it the onward rush, progression, the sense of one event coming after another; my understanding of cause and effect, of the chronological chopping-up of time both personal and historical—before and after, premodern and modern—all blurred, folded, unraveled out of reach.
—Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
Doctors advise not to ignore symptoms like persistent redness, pain or blurred vision.
—Gabby Sartori, USA Today, 16 June 2026
Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome affects the kidneys and causes a wide range of symptoms, including blurred vision, low blood pressure, acute shock, internal bleeding and kidney failure.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
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“Blurred.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blurred. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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