Illustration: In a Japanese apartment bathroom, warm shower steam has clouded the mirror until the reflected face of a man brushing his teeth is soft and indistinct. He wipes a small circular patch with his palm, revealing one sharply recognizable eye and eyebrow amid the blurred reflection.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

ぼやける

boyakeru

to become blurred

Example sentences

テレビの画像がぞうはぼやけて見みえた。
The TV picture was blurred.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
写真しゃしんがぼやけてる。
The picture is blurry.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
また、鋳型いがたは繰くり返かえし使用しようするうちに傷いたみ、次第しだいに銭影せんえいがぼやけ、銭名せんめいが読よめなくなる。
After repeated use of molds, they become damaged, and the impressions on the coins become illegible due to the gradual wear of the impression of the original coin.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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