This week's theme: words with double connections.

mackle (MAK-uhl) noun

   A blur, as from a double impression in printing.

verb tr., intr.

   To blur.

[From Latin macula (spot or stain).]

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=mackle

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  "For some twenty days all recollections vanished from my mind.
   That period forms but a mackled page in my existence."
   Peter Browning; To the Golden Shore; Great West Books; 1995.

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