Word Meanings - BLEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

akin to Goth. blandan to mix, Icel. blanda, Sw. blanda, Dan. blande, 1. 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;

Additional info about word: BLEND

akin to Goth. blandan to mix, Icel. blanda, Sw. blanda, Dan. blande, 1. 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. Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. Percival. 2. To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. Spenser. Syn. -- To commingle; combine; fuse; merge; amalgamate; harmonize.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BLEND)

• Attemper
• Moderate
• subdue
• compound
• commingle
• adapt
• adjust
• harmonize
• modify
• blend
• attune
• mix
• mold
• work
• medicate
• amalgamate
• accommodate
• Coagulate
• Mix
• fuse
• coalesce
• condense
• Coalesce
• Harmonize
• combine
• join
• unite
• cohere
• Confound
• Confuse
• disorder
• trouble
• disarrange
• intermix
• abash
• astound
• mystify
• obscure
• stupefy
• disconcert
• intermingle
• perplex
• discompose
• Inosculate
• Blend
• intertwine
• solidify
• anastomose
• intersect
• interpenetrate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BLEND)

• Resolve
• analyze
• Reveal
• make known
• discover
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to BLEND)

• MODIFY
  1. To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms of a contract. 2. To limit or reduce in extent or degree; to moderate; to qualify; to lower.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• COALESCE
  1. To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce. 2. To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce. The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other
• COAGULATE
  Coagulated. Shak. (more info) coagulate, fr. coagulum means of coagulation, fr. cogere, coactum, to
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• INTERPENETRATE
  To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• ANASTOMOSE
  To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins. The ribbing of the leaf, and the anastomosing network of its vessels. I. Taylor. (more info) Etym: (Anat. & Bot.)
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• ATTEMPER
  1. To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench. 2. To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• ABASHMENT
  The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• CALABASH
  Calebasse), lit., a dry gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + 1. The common gourd . 2. The fruit of the calabash tree. 3. A water dipper, bottle, backet, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. Calabash tree.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• SQUABASH
  To crush; to quash; to squash. Sir W. Scott.
• INTERMINGLE
  To mingle or mix together; to intermix. Hooker.