Synonyms of the word

blur

• v. To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
• v. To smear, stain or smudge.
• v. (intransitive) To become indistinct.
• v. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
• v. (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
• n. A smear, smudge or blot.
• n. Something that appears hazy or indistinct.
• n. (obsolete) A moral stain or blot.
• adj. (Malaysia, Singapore, informal) In a state of doubt or confusion.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

blear

• adj. (of eyes or vision) dim, unclear from water or rheum.
• adj. Causing or caused by dimness of sight.
• v. (intransitive) To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes.
• v. (transitive) To make blurred or dim (of the eyes or eyesight).
• v. (transitive) To blur, make blurry (of an image).

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

confuse

• v. To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
• v. (obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
• v. To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
• v. To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
• v. To mistake one thing for another.

dim

• adj. Not bright or colorful.
• adj. (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
• adj. Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
• adj. Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
• adv. Dimly, indistinctly.
• n. (archaic) Dimness.
• v. (transitive) To make something less bright.
• v. (intransitive) To become darker.
• v. To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken;…
• v. To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes;…

fuzz

• n. A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.
• n. Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image.
• n. (computing) The random data used in fuzz testing.
• n. A distorted sound, especially from an electric guitar or other amplified instrument.
• n. A state of befuddlement.
• v. (transitive) To make fuzzy.
• v. (intransitive) To become fuzzy.
• v. (transitive, dated) To make drunk.
• v. (computing) To test a software component by running it on randomly generated input.
• n. (slang, with "the") The police.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

obnubilate

• adj. (obsolete) Covered or darkened as with a cloud; overclouded; obscured.
• v. (obsolete) To obscure, to shadow.
• v. To make cloudy.

obscure

• adj. Dark, faint or indistinct.
• adj. Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
• adj. difficult to understand.
• adj. not well-known.
• v. (transitive) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible,…
• v. (transitive) To hide, put out of sight etc.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To conceal oneself; to hide.

representation

• n. That which represents another.
• n. (law) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
• n. (politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this…
• n. (mathematics) An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector…
• n. A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
• n. A theatrical performance.

rub

• n. An act of rubbing.
• n. A difficulty or problem.
• n. In the game of crown green bowls: any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
• n. Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
• v. (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure…
• v. (transitive) To rub something against (a second thing).
• v. (intransitive) To be rubbed against something.
• v. (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
• v. (dated) To move or pass with difficulty.
• v. To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
• v. To hinder; to cross; to thwart.

slur

• n. An insult or slight.
• n. (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
• n. (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused…
• n. (obsolete) A trick or deception.
• n. In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
• v. To insult or slight.
• v. To run together; to articulate poorly.
• v. (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
• v. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
• v. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
• v. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
• v. (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

smear

• v. (transitive) To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
• v. (transitive) To have a substance smeared on (a surface).
• v. (transitive) To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false…
• v. (intransitive) To become spread by smearing.
• v. (climbing) To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
• n. A mark made by smearing.
• n. (medicine) A Pap smear.
• n. A false attack.
• n. (climbing) A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe…
• n. (music) A rough glissando in jazz music.

smudge

• n. A blemish; a smear.
• n. Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
• n. (US) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of…
• n. (paganism, especially in the phrase "smudge stick" = "stick of incense") A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
• v. To obscure by blurring; to smear.
• v. To soil or smear with dirt.
• v. To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
• v. To stifle or smother with smoke.
• v. (paganism, intransitive) To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
• v. (paganism, transitive) To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).

smutch

• v. To soil, stain or smudge.
• n. A stain, smudge or blot.

weaken

• v. (transitive) To make weaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker.