BLEARING Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

blearing

verb

present participle of blear

as in obscuring

to make dark, dim, or indistinct her image was bleared, as if I were staring at it through a watery lens

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But there were too many multiple traumas and trauma swappings that wound up obscuring the issues.

— Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2026
In the video, the shooting officer’s arms and long gun block his camera’s view, obscuring Tucker in the moments before he was shot.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of obscuring

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During a total eclipse, the moon completely covers the face of the sun, darkening the sky and revealing just the sun’s outer atmosphere called the corona.

— Devika Rao, TheWeek, 12 Aug. 2026
Instead of darkening the sky and unveiling the sun's signature circular ring, this time around the moon will only partly cover the sun, giving it a crescent shape, according to NASA.

— Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026

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Meta could introduce technical solutions, like automatically blurring faces, as Google does in Street View images, but Szydlowski doubts Meta would voluntarily make such a privacy-conscious change without regulatory or public pressure.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026
With fewer than 100 days left in the Georgia midterm election cycle, the political lines between Republicans and Democrats are blurring.

— Irene Wright, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026

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