vverb.creationplay smoothly or legatoTopic:music
Examples:- the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata
Derivationally Related Form:slur
Hypernyms:play spiel
Inherited Hypernyms:slurplayre-createmake
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | They will --- the duet (apply to: slur)
vverb.communicationspeak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slurExamples:- your comments are slurring your co-workers
Derivationally Related Form:slur
Hypernyms:denote refer
Inherited Hypernyms:slurdenotemean
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s somebody
vverb.communicationutter indistinctlyHypernyms:mouth speak talk utter verbalise verbalize
Inherited Hypernyms:slurtalkcommunicateinteractact
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something
vverb.changebecome vague or indistinctSynset:blur dim slur
Examples:- The distinction between the two theories blurred
Antonyms:focus
Derivationally Related Form:blur
Hypernyms:weaken
Inherited Hypernyms:blurweakendecreasechange magnitudechange
Direct Hyponyms:effaceobliterate
Full Troponyms:obliterate
Sentence Frame:Something ---s
adj satadj.allspoken as if with a thick tongueSynset:thick
Examples:- the thick speech of a drunkard
- his words were slurred
Antonyms:intelligible
Derivationally Related Form:thickness
Inherited Hypernyms:slurred
Similar to:unintelligible