What is "defocus"

Usage examples of "defocus".

It melted like a defocusing image: grass and mud and trees and streams running together, everything but the three of them, two humans and a Gaijin, and that eerie universe-Sun, so that they seemed to be floating, bathed in a deeper darkness than Madeleine had ever known.

Pedersen's manuscript my eyes defocused through the page as I envisioned the novel I could confect around these rough recollections, a novel firmly embedded in the conventions of the Western genre, but dealing with wider and more contemporary issues: with the end of a century, the end of an era, the end of a defining, and for American males a limiting, dream.

There was only one person within aura range, and that person's vibrations were defuse, defocused, vulnerable.

It would not be accurate to say that he put her out of his mind during the long drive home to the North Shore, but he was able to tuck her away into a defocused corner of his consciousness.

He rolled and licked his second smoke, then forgot to light it as he stared, eyes defocused, into the deepening gloom.

Jonathan recognized from Anderl's solicitude that he, too, had sensed something defocused and queer through the rope that had connected his nervous system to Jean-Paul's.

He regarded Matthew with a long, defocused gaze as he hefted various possibilities.

But his grip went limp with disgust, so he hung it back up and sat on the edge of his bed for a time, staring defocused at the floor.

They were aimed along the north/south axis of the peninsula, and defocused, so that at the point of impact they were over fifty metres across.

His helmet lights automatically defocused, throwing their radiance all around him.

He sat down with his back against one of the ship's weapons lockers and defocused his large, insectlike eyes.

He let all four eyes defocus, drew a deep breath, and opened fire.

Anne had begun instrumenting the patients, using the data to guide the deFocusing, and afterward to monitor for stroke and infection.