"blear" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /blɪə(ɹ)/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-blear.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more blear [comparative], most blear [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English blere, related to Low German bleeroged (“bleareyed”), Middle High German blerre (“double vision”), German Blerre (“double vision”). Perhaps also related to blur. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|blere}} Middle English blere, {{cog|nds|bleeroged|t=bleareyed}} Low German bleeroged (“bleareyed”), {{cog|gmh|blerre|t=double vision}} Middle High German blerre (“double vision”), {{cog|de|Blerre|t=double vision}} German Blerre (“double vision”), {{m|en|blur}} blur Head templates: {{en-adj}} blear (comparative more blear, superlative most blear)
  1. (of eyes or vision) Dim, unclear from water or rheum. Translations (dim): замъглен (zamǎglen) (Bulgarian), неясен (nejasen) (Bulgarian), mętny (Polish), kaprawy (Polish)
    Sense id: en-blear-en-adj-QJTx5B1s Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 22 3 16 10 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 52 15 4 15 15 Disambiguation of 'dim': 96 4
  2. Causing or caused by dimness of sight.
    Sense id: en-blear-en-adj-0TOiCwF0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bleer [archaic] Derived forms: blear eye Related terms: bleary
Etymology number: 1

Verb [English]

IPA: /blɪə(ɹ)/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-blear.wav [Southern-England] Forms: blears [present, singular, third-person], blearing [participle, present], bleared [participle, past], bleared [past]
Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|bleren}} Middle English bleren, {{inh|en|ang|*blerian}} Old English *blerian Head templates: {{en-verb}} blear (third-person singular simple present blears, present participle blearing, simple past and past participle bleared)
  1. (intransitive) To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-blear-en-verb-K7yC2GCF
  2. (transitive) To make (usually the eyes or eyesight) blurred or dim. Tags: transitive Translations (make blurred or dim): замъглявам (zamǎgljavam) (Bulgarian), whakamakaro (Maori), zamglić [perfective] (Polish), затума́нивать (zatumánivatʹ) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-blear-en-verb-fGWbmQR6 Disambiguation of 'make blurred or dim': 2 76 22
  3. (transitive, of an image) To blur, make blurry. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Vision
    Sense id: en-blear-en-verb-n9wMycUp Disambiguation of Vision: 17 10 8 17 49
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bleer [archaic]
Etymology number: 2

Adjective [Romansch]

Forms: bleara [feminine, singular], blears [masculine, plural], blearas [feminine, plural]
Etymology: From Latin valde. Etymology templates: {{der|rm|la|valde}} Latin valde Head templates: {{head|rm|adjectives|head=}} blear, {{rm-adj}} blear m (feminine singular bleara, masculine plural blears, feminine plural blearas)
  1. (Sutsilvan) much, a lot of Tags: Sutsilvan, masculine Synonyms: bler [Rumantsch-Grischun, Surmiran, Vallander], bia [Sursilvan, Sutsilvan], bger [Puter]
    Sense id: en-blear-rm-adj-mh17e97E Categories (other): Romansch entries with incorrect language header, Sutsilvan Romansch

Inflected forms

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      "word": "bleer"
    }
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zamǎglen",
      "sense": "dim",
      "word": "замъглен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nejasen",
      "sense": "dim",
      "word": "неясен"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "dim",
      "word": "mętny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "dim",
      "word": "kaprawy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blear"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪə(ɹ)",
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    "en:Vision"
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      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "expansion": "Old English *blerian",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blears",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "18th c., attributed to Jonathan Swift, “The Story of Orpheus, Burlesqued,” in Walter Scott (ed.), The Works of Jonathan Swift, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 2nd edition, 1883, Volume 10, p. 403,\nOrpheus, a one-eyed blearing Thracian,\nThe crowder of that barb’rous nation,\nWas ballad-singer by vocation;"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, John Grosvenor Wilson, “A Rainy Day in Town”, in Lyrics of Life, New York: Caxton Book Concern, page 146",
          "text": "The street-lamps blearing thro’ the rainy rout,\nEach like a winking, sickly evil-eye.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1917, Madge Morris, The “Red Wind Blows” in The Lure of the Desert Land and Other Poems, San Francisco: Har Wagner, p. 83,\nLet loose thy snow-winged dove, to rise\nAnd fly across the seething blood-mad world.\nTo flutter over fields where that dread Silence is!\nTo light on upturned faces blearing at the skies\nAnd curiously peck at dead men’s eyes."
        }
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        "To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes."
      ],
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        "(intransitive) To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes."
      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1584, Anonymous, Sonnet, in Clement Robinson et al., A Handefull of Pleasnt Delites, London: Richard Ihones, reprinted from the original edition for the Spenser Society, 1871, p. 52, I Smile to ſee how you deuiſe, New maſking nets my eies to bleare",
          "roman": "But as you are, you muſt appeare.",
          "text": "your ſelf you cannot ſo diſguiſe:"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1928, Frank Parker Day, chapter 1, in Rockbound",
          "text": "He was useful to the man, for his sharp young eyes could pick up net or trawl buoys, white with a stripe of scarlet, far quicker than the rum-bleared eyes of his stepfather.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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      ],
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        ],
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          "dim",
          "dim"
        ]
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        "(transitive) To make (usually the eyes or eyesight) blurred or dim."
      ],
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      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1865, Alfred Billings Street, “My Canoe”, in Forest Pictures in the Adirondacks, New York: Gregory, page 33",
          "text": "When winter blears bleakly the forest,\nAnd the water binds gray to its blue,\nSafe and sound in her covert I leave her,\nTill spring calls again my canoe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1888, David Atwood Wasson, “Babes of God” Part II in Poems, Boston: Lee & Shepard, p. 36,\nNow, one among the foremost, looking up\nBy chance, with horror saw, in farthest sky\nFronting their course, a troublous film of cloud,—\nA strange, dark, troublous film of cloud,—\nBlearing the beauty of the crystal wall."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1946, Mervyn Peake, “Here and There”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode",
          "text": "He stared at but did not see the bleared reflection of the flanking cherubs a hundred feet above the steel-grey veneer of water.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "To blur, make blurry."
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        "(transitive, of an image) To blur, make blurry."
      ],
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      ],
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      ]
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      "ipa": "/blɪə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ɪə(ɹ)"
    },
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      "word": "bleer"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zamǎgljavam",
      "sense": "make blurred or dim",
      "word": "замъглявам"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "make blurred or dim",
      "word": "whakamakaro"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "make blurred or dim",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zamglić"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zatumánivatʹ",
      "sense": "make blurred or dim",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "затума́нивать"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blear"
}

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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "la",
        "3": "valde"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin valde",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin valde.",
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    {
      "form": "bleara",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blears",
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    },
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      "categories": [
        "Romansch adjectives",
        "Romansch entries with incorrect language header",
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        "Romansch terms derived from Latin",
        "Sutsilvan Romansch"
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        "much, a lot of"
      ],
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          "much"
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          "a lot of"
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        "Surmiran",
        "Vallander"
      ],
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        "Sutsilvan"
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      "word": "bia"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Puter"
      ],
      "word": "bger"
    }
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  "word": "blear"
}

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