Difference between Dim and Blur

What is the difference between Dim and Blur?

Dim as a verb is to make something less bright. while Blur as a verb is to make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.

Dim

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: not bright or colorful not smart or intelligent indistinct, hazy or unclear disapproving, unfavorable, rarely used outside the phrase "take a dim view of".

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make something less bright. To become darker.

Example sentence: Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Blur

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.To smear, stain or smudge.To become indistinct.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A smear, smudge or blotSomething that appears hazy or indistinct

Example sentence: Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.

We hope you now know whether to use Dim or Blur in your sentence.

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