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How to spell blur

What it means: To make unclear or indistinct.

In a sentence: The rain made the window blur and hard to see through. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as blurr or bler.

Same family: blurred, blurring, blurry, blurredness. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Blur likely comes from a Middle English word related to smearing or staining, and it has been used since the 1500s to describe something made unclear—first in pictures and later in memory and ideas as well.

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