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Meaning of SLUR in English

To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

Use in sentences of SLUR

    Meaning of SLUR in English

    • To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
    • To disparage; to traduce.
    • To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
    • To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
    • To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
    • To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
    • To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
    • A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
    • A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
    • A mark, thus [/ or /], 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.
    • In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

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