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Blear vs Murky - What's the difference?

blear | murky |

As adjectives the difference between blear and murky

is that blear is dim, unclear from water or rheum while murky is hard to see through, as a fog or mist.

As a verb blear

is to make blurred or dim, especially the eyes.

blear

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of eyes or vision) dim, unclear from water or rheum.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin.
  • * 1981 , John Gardner, Freddy's Book , Abacus 1982, p. 74:
    • The Devil, now disguised as a half-wit peasant to Lars-Goren's left, stood grinning, his blear eyes glittering.
  • Causing or caused by dimness of sight.
  • * Milton
    • Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion.

    See also

    * bleary

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make blurred or dim, especially the eyes.

    • Anagrams

    * * * ----

    murky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Hard to see through, as a fog or mist.
  • Gloomy, dark, dim.
  • Obscure, indistinct, cloudy.
  • Dishonest, shady.

    • Synonyms

    * dark

    Related terms

    * murk * murkily * murkiness

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