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Dim vs Blear - What's the difference?

dim | blear |

As adjectives the difference between dim and blear

is that dim is not bright or colorful while blear is dim, unclear from water or rheum.

As verbs the difference between dim and blear

is that dim is to make something less bright while blear is to make blurred or dim, especially the eyes.

As an adverb dim

is dimly, indistinctly.

As a noun dim

is dimness.

dim

Translingual

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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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