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BLEAR
bleary, blear, bleary-eyed, blear-eyed
(adjective) tired to the point of exhaustion
blur, blear
(verb) make dim or indistinct; “The fog blurs my vision”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
blear (comparative more blear, superlative most blear)
(of eyes or vision) Dim, unclear from water or rheum.
Causing or caused by dimness of sight.
Etymology 2
Verb
blear (third-person singular simple present blears, present participle blearing, simple past and past participle bleared)
(intransitive) To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes.
(transitive, of the eyes or eyesight) To make blurred or dim.
(transitive, of an image) To blur, make blurry.
Anagrams
• Alber, Baler, Laber, Rabel, abler, baler, belar, blare
Source: Wiktionary
Blear, a. Etym: [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.] Etym: [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.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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