Blend: Definition and part of speech

Blend

  1. a. To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive.
  2. v. t. To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound.
  3. v. t. To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
  4. v. i. To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.
  5. n. A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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