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Bleats vs Blears - What's the difference?

bleats | blears |

As verbs the difference between bleats and blears

is that bleats is third-person singular of bleat while blears is third-person singular of blear.

bleats

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bleat)

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    bleat

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (Scotland)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.

    • Synonyms

    * (sheep's cry ) baa, baaing, bleating

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry.
  • (informal) Of a person, to complain.
    • The last thing we need is to hear them bleating to us about organizational problems.

    Synonyms

    * (1): baa * (2): kvetch (US''), moan, whinge (''British ), whine

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    blears

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (blear)

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    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.

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