fuzzy over

verb

To obscure and make indiscernible

Meanings

verbfuzzy over (third-person singular simple present fuzzies over, present participle fuzzying over, simple past and past participle fuzzied over)

present singular third person fuzzies over · participle present fuzzying over · participle past fuzzied over · past fuzzied over

  1. To obscure and make indiscernible

    We dare not risk a nation of TV-Don Quixotes. We Americans must not let our sense of the world be fuzzied over by this newest, most promising, most vivid, most democratic of all media. We face new perils: TV-Myopia, mistaking the image in our living room for the reality out there.

    1985 October 29, Daniel Joseph Boorstin, “Don Quixote in the Age of Television” (speech), quoted in 1989, The Republic of Letters: Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin on Books, Reading, and Libraries, 1975-1987, ed. John Y. Cole
    1 more example

    It was private and consensual between two adults miles away from the school district. The state has no interest to regulate. And if they [the FDAB] attempt to fuzzy over the issue by invoking Biblical injunctions about morality, they are going to end up right back before the Appeals Court.

    1983 February 5, Jil Clark, quoting Robert Durham, “Fired Gay Teacher Wins Round In Court”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 28, page 3
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