blear

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /blɪə/    美 /blɪə/|/blɪɹ/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes. intransitive
    — 18th c., attributed to Jonathan Swift, “The Story of Orpheus, Burlesqued,” in Walter Scott (ed.), The Works of Jonathan Swift, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 2nd edition, 1883, Volume 10, p. 403, Orpheus, a one-eyed blearing Thracian, The crowder of that barb’rous nation, Was ballad-singer by vocation;
  2. Alternative form of blare alt-of,alternative
  3. To make (usually the eyes or eyesight) blurred or dim. transitive
    — your ſelf you cannot ſo diſguiſe:
  4. To blur, make blurry. transitive
    — When winter blears bleakly the forest, And the water binds gray to its blue, Safe and sound in her covert I leave her, Till spring calls again my canoe.
形容词 adj.
  1. Dim; unclear from water or rheum.
    — A Promontory Wen, with grieſly grace, Stood high, upon the Handle of his Face: His blear Eyes ran in gutters to his Chin: His Beard was stubble, and his Cheeks were thin.
  2. Causing or caused by dimness of sight.
    — Thus I hurle My dazling spells into the ſpungie aire Of power to cheate the eye with bleare illuſion, And give it falſe preſentments, […]
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词形变化

more blear comparative most blear superlative bleer alternative,archaic blears present,singular,third-person blearing participle,present bleared participle,past bleared past bleer alternative,archaic blears present,singular,third-person blearing participle,present bleared participle,past bleared past bleer alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词
blear eye bleareyed blearness
相关词
bleary

词源

词源 1
From Middle English blere, related to Low German bleeroged (“bleareyed”), Middle High German blerre (“double vision”), German Blerre (“double vision”). Perhaps also related to blur.
词源 2
From Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian.
词源 3
From Middle English bleren, from Old English *blǣran, related to West Frisian blearje (“to bleat, shout”), Dutch bleren, blaren (“to bellow, bleat”), German Low German blaren, blarren (“to blare, howl, shriek”), German plärren (“to howl, shriek, blare”).
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