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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
slur \slur\ sl^ur, v. t. imp.  p. p. slurred sl^urd;
   p. pr.  vb. n. slurring sl^ur"ri^ng. cf. oe. sloor
   mud, clay, icel. sl=ora, sloethra, to trail or drag one's
   self along, d. sleuren, sloren, to train, to drag, to do
   negligently and slovenly, d. sloor, sloerie, a sluttish
   girl.
   1. to soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
      --cudworth.
      1913 webster

   2. to disparage; to traduce. --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   3. to cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over
      lightly or with little notice.
      1913 webster

            with periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his
            crimes.                               --dryden.
      1913 webster

   4. to cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. r.
      1913 webster

            to slur men of what they fought for.  --hudibras.
      1913 webster

   5. to pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables; to slur
      one's words.
      1913 webster

   6. mus. to sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to
      connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
      --busby.
      1913 webster

   7. print. to blur or double, as an impression from type; to
      mackle.
      1913 webster
see also:
slurred slurring 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
slur \slur\, n.
   1. a mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a
      stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. "gaining to
      his name a lasting slur." --south.
      1913 webster

   2. a trick played upon a person; an imposition. r.
      1913 webster

   3. mus. a mark, thus upslur or downslur, connecting
      notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in
      one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one
      stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
      1913 webster

   4. in knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the
      sinkers successively by passing over them.
      1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
slur
     n 1: music a curved line spanning notes that are to be played
          legato
     2: 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" syn: aspersion
     3: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" syn:
         smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch
     v 1: play smoothly or legato; "the pianist slurred the most
          beautiful passage in the sonata"
     2: speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; "your
        comments are slurring your co-workers"
     3: utter indistinctly
     4: become vague or indistinct; "the distinction between the two
        theories blurred" syn: blur, dim ant: focus
     also: slurring, slurred
see also:
aspersion smudge spot blot daub smear 
smirch blur dim focus slurring 
slurred 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
182 moby thesaurus words for "slur":
   accent, accent mark, affront, asperse, aspersion, attaint,
   bad-mouth, badge of infamy, bar, bar sinister, baton, bedaub,
   befoul, bend sinister, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, bespatter,
   bestain, black eye, black mark, blacken, blink, blot, blow upon,
   blur, brand, broad arrow, calumniate, calumny, cancel, cantando,
   carefully ignore, cast aspersions on, cast reflections on, censure,
   champain, character, cold-shoulder, custos, cut a corner,
   cut corners, darken, daub, defame, defile, demilegato, denigrate,
   dip into, direct, dirty, disapprove, discolor, discredit,
   disparage, disparagement, disregard, dodge, dot, examine cursorily,
   execution, expose, expose to infamy, expression, expression mark,
   fermata, fingering, fudge, garble, gibbet, give the once-over,
   glance at, glissando, gloss over, hang in effigy, hold, ignore,
   imputation, innuendo, insinuation, insult, intonation,
   key signature, lead, legato, libel, ligature, lisp, malign, mark,
   mark of cain, measure, metronomic mark, mezzo staccato, mumble,
   music-making, notation, obloquy, odium, onus, page through,
   parlando, pass over, pass over lightly, pause, performance,
   personal remark, personality, pianism, pillory, pillorying,
   pizzicato, point champain, presa, put-down, reflection, rendering,
   rendition, repercussion, reprimand, reproach, rubato, scamp, scan,
   scorch, sear, segno, sign, signature, singe, skid, skim, skim over,
   skim the surface, skimp, skip over, slam, slander, slidder, slight,
   slip, slip through, slubber, slubber over, slur over,
   sly suggestion, smear, smirch, smoke, smudge, smutch, soil,
   spiccato, spot, staccato, stain, stigma, stigmatism,
   stigmatization, stigmatize, stricture, stutter, suggestion, sully,
   swell, symbol, taint, tarnish, tear down, tempo mark,
   thumb through, tie, time signature, touch, touch upon,
   touch upon lightly, traduce, uncomplimentary remark, vilify,
   vinculum, whispering campaign, zip through





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