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  • verb transitive To bring out of focus.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ focus

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Examples

  • (I'm not adding the string "[unfocus]", though this would be trivial).

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  • Necdet let his eyes unfocus and wander mildly across the passengers, wedged so politely together.

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  • And if you unfocus your eyes in just the right way, her skin tone may match that of any proud Pandora resident.

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  • Darian didn't comment on that openly, but he felt that seeing the village and calling up all of its memories would unfocus his concentration on the task at hand.

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  • Seriously, this is like a Magic Eye print (if you unfocus your eyes it projects an image of Tim with a Hitler mustache!)

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  • **Heads out the door to unfocus lens and start shooting**

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  • Seriously, this is like a Magic Eye print (if you unfocus your eyes it projects an image of Tim with a Hitler mustache!)

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  • Her eyes unfocus, staring at me, not blinking, through me, and her pencil whips around the paper, she smudges a line with her thumb.

    The Other Side of Dark Sarah Smith 2010

  • Pépé was now just an outline, a shadow, a ghost flitting in front of the pit, and I stared, letting my eyes unfocus and drift, letting the gods reach into my head and steal my thoughts away from this moment.

    In the Shadow of Freedom Tchicaya Missamou 2010

  • She lets her eyes unfocus, lets her jaw slacken and the moisture run from her cracked lips.

    The Faraday Effect 2009

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