unsharpen

present singular third person unsharpens · participle present unsharpening · participle past unsharpened · past unsharpened

1. transitiveTo render unsharp; to spoil the sharpness of (something).

   That said, there is a curious solace in settling into a worldview by a writer who so refuses to unsharpen her vision, whose investment is in the clarity and freshness of the imagery and an honest portrayal of our craven impulses.

   2022 October 15, Aimee Bender, “In Robin McLean’s Stories, Life Is Tough but So Are the Living”, in The New York Times

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   Thus, every product is branded with a legal marking, or a trademark respectively. In addition, as every product has a name, every product allows us to associate knowledge and meaning to this name. As the differentiation of products and brands unsharpens this distinction, we suggest the distinction of brands and the brand systems: […]

   2006, Marius K. Lüdicke, A Theory of Marketing: Outline of a Social Systems Perspective, Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, →ISBN, page 84

2. transitivecomputer graphicsTo undo a sharpening operation on (an image).

   When it sharpens the image, you can't unsharpen it again without losing data.

   2012, Haje Jan Kamps, Focus on Travel Photography, page 91