Definition: slurred

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

slurred
     adj : spoken as if with a thick tongue; "the thick speech of a
           drunkard"; "his words were slurred" [syn: thick]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Slurred \Slurred\, a. (Mus.)
   Marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style,
   like notes marked with a slur.
Slur \Slur\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slurred; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Slurring.] [Cf. OE. sloor mud, clay, Icel. sl?ra, slo?ra,
   to trail or drag one's self along, D. sleuren, sloren, to
   train, to drag, to do negligently and slovenly, D. sloor,
   sloerie, a sluttish girl.]
   1. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
      --Cudworth.

   2. To disparage; to traduce. --Tennyson.

   3. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over
      lightly or with little notice.

            With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his
            crimes.                               --Dryden.

   4. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. [R.]

            To slur men of what they fought for.  --Hudibras.

   5. To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.

   6. (Mus.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to
      connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
      --Busby.

   7. (Print.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to
      mackle.