v. t. | 1. | To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace. |
2. | To disparage; to traduce. | |
3. | To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice. | |
4. | To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. | |
5. | To pronounce indistinctly; | |
6. | (Mus.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones. | |
7. | (Print.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle. | |
n. | 1. | A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. |
2. | A trick played upon a person; an imposition. | |
3. | (Mus.) A mark, thus [ | |
4. | In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them. |
Noun | 1. | slur - (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato |
2. | slur - a disparaging remark; "in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion"; "it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility" Synonyms: aspersion | |
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Verb | 1. | slur - play smoothly or legato; "the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata" |
2. | slur - speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; "your comments are slurring your co-workers" | |
3. | slur - utter indistinctly | |
4. | slur - become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred" |