meaning of slur

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; as, to slur syllables.
6.
To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
7.
To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
8.
A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
9.
A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
10.
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.
11.
In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
12.
a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his ">cheek"


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