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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Other finalists include photos of mist rolling over hills in Vietnam, a massive chunk of ice calving from a glacier in Argentina and smoke from wildfires obscuring the New York City skyline.

— Jack Guy, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2026
Spectral Lilac Lilac nods to early morning mist floating over an eerily still lake, or obscuring your path through a twisting forest.

— Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of obscuring

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This approach offers a bold personal statement without overwhelming or darkening the entire room.

— Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 3 Nov. 2026
Abdalla’s fall refresh enhances her brunette base by darkening her roots and replacing those golden ribbons with warm brunette tones for lived-in dimension.

— Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 20 Oct. 2026

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Saunders’s novel mixes his characters’ epitaph-like accounts of their lives and other dialogue with real text from the historical record, blurring the boundary between speech, which rises in living time, and writing, which exists outside it.

— Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026
Continue reading … FINANCIAL RED FLAG — Watchdog accuses DSA candidate of blurring charity, business and campaign.

— , FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026

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