Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To blur or redden (the eyes).
- transitive verb To blur; dim.
- adjective Bleary.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To affect (the eyes) with flowing tears or rheum so that the sight is dimmed and indistinct; make rheumy and dim: as, “blered her eyes,”
- To blur, as the face with weeping; obscure; obfuscate.
- To blear one's eyes, figuratively, to deceive; hoodwink; blind.
- To have bleared or inflamed eyes; be blear-eyed.
- Sore or dim from a watery discharge or other superficial affection: applied only to the eyes.
- Producing dimness of vision; blinding.
- Dim; indistinct; confused in outlines.
- noun Something that obscures the sight.
- To thrust (out); protrude: with out.
- To thrust out the tongue in mockery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes.
- adjective Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim.
- transitive verb To make somewhat sore or watery, as the eyes; to dim, or blur, as the sight. Figuratively: To obscure (mental or moral perception); to blind; to hoodwink.
- transitive verb [Obs.] to deceive; to impose upon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
dim , unclear from water or rheum. - verb To make
blurred ordim , especially the eyes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make dim or indistinct
- adjective tired to the point of exhaustion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Then How-ha's eyes went blear as she traversed the simple windings of her own brain, inspecting the bare shelves taciturnly stored with the impressions of a meagre life.
CHAPTER 19 2010
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He remembered the days when some of the old men, still alive, had been born; and, unlike him, they were now decrepit, shaken with palsy, blear-eyed, toothless of mouth, deaf of ear, or paralysed.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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(London received $530 for this story on August 14, 1905.) "TO cook by your fire and to sleep under your roof for the night," I had announced on entering old Ebbits's cabin; and he had looked at me blear-eyed and vacuous, while Zilla had favored me with a sour face and a contemptuous grunt.
The White Man's Way 2010
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The chief was alone with his blear-eyed wife, but a glance sufficed to tell Mackenzie that the news was already told.
The Sun of the Wolf 2010
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The chief was alone with his blear-eyed wife, but a glance sufficed to tell Mackenzie that the news was already told.
The Son of the Wolf 2010
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A blear-eyed ancient stood before him, balancing on a single crutch.
CHAPTER 2 2010
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But my poor blear eyes like a bat's, startled me at my shadow on the flagstones.
Chapter 22 2010
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The Emperor grew more weak-legged and blear-eyed what of the ingenious deviltries devised for him by
Chapter 15 2010
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They sat down together on the floor, and she patted Frona's hand lovingly, peering, meanwhile, blear-eyed and misty, into her face.
CHAPTER 2 2010
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I had announced on entering old Ebbits's cabin; and he had looked at me blear-eyed and vacuous, while Zilla had favored me with a sour face and a contemptuous grunt.
THE WHITE MAN'S WAY 2010
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