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| slur | |
| 1. n. An insult or slight. |  |
| a racial slur | |
| 2. n. (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation. | |
| 3. n. (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie). | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) A trick or deception. | |
| 5. n. In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them. | |
| 6. v. To insult or slight. | |
| 7. v. To run together; to articulate poorly. | |
| to slur syllables; He slurs his speech when he is drunk. | |
| 8. v. (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly. | |
| 9. v. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace. | |
| 10. v. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice. | |
| 11. v. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. | |
| 12. v. (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle. | |
