blear Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make dim or indistinct
    blur.
    • The fog blurs my vision
  2. adjective satellite tired to the point of exhaustion
    blear-eyed; bleary; bleary-eyed.

WordNet

Blear adjective
Etymology
See Blear, v.
Definitions
  1. Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes.
    His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin. Dryden.
  2. Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim.
    Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion. Milton.
Blear transitive verb
Etymology
OE. bleren; cf. Dan. plire to blink, Sw. plira to twinkle, wink, LG. plieren; perh. from the same root as E. blink. See Blink, and cf. Blur.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Bleared present participle & verbal noun Blearing
Definitions
  1. 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.
    That tickling rheums Should ever tease the lungs and blear the sight. Cowper.
    Chaucer.

Webster 1913