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Definition of blend :
1. 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.
2. To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines.
3. To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive.
4. To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.
5. 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.
6. To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
Synonyms:
give-up the ghost, pop off, buy the farm, harmonize, choke, run low, give way, work, operate, get, endure, travel, run, blend in, unite, flux, orchestrate, lead, function, ruffle, hold out, pass away, exit, survive, commix, coalesce, snuff it, shading, go, fail, flow, live on, proceed, admix, expire, give out, depart, melt, locomote, integrate, perish, extend, last, die, conk, cash in one's chips, belong, immingle, commingle, conk out, decease, get going, go bad, sound, liquefy, beautiful, plump, arrange, unify, start, go away, move, fit, conflate, pass, coordinate, synthesize, portmanteau, liquify, croak, run short, drop dead, desegregate, portmanteau word, aggregate, break, live, rifle, immix, hold up, kick the bucket, mix in, shuffle, break down, intermingle, become, stir
combination (part of speech: noun)
composite, incorporation, ensemble, compound, admixture, fusion, conglomerate, composition, brew, assembly, mixture, medley, hodgepodge, paste, amalgam, combination, concoction, commixture, infusion, olio, mix, amalgamation, alloy, conglomeration
mix (part of speech: verb)
intermix, decoct, mingle, merge
mixture (part of speech: noun)
decoction, bastard, interfusion, emulsion, mash, intermixture, potpourri, meld, blending, elixir, merger, stew, amalgamate, hybrid, mongrel
combine (part of speech: verb)
compose, concoct, combine, assemble, fuse, infuse, incorporate
Usage examples:
- The first four years of my life blend together in my memory like one long summer day, without the smallest cloud in the blue skies above it. - "'O Thou, My Austria!'", Ossip Schubin.
- The rich peltries then were what gold and silver were later, and what grain, alfalfa, fruit, sugar beets and potatoes are now, and will be as long as water, soil, and sunshine blend. - "Colorado--The Bright Romance of American History", F. C. Grable.
- The laws of wonder- working might, The stores by beauty brought to light, Inventive reason in soft union planned To blend together 'neath your forming hand. - "Poems of The Second Period", Frederich Schiller.