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blend

BLEND/blɛnd/

Pluralblends

Verbblends, blending, blended

5 meanings of blend

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  1. 1
    nouncountable
    A mixture made by combining two or more things.

    Like mixing red and blue paint to make purple.

    This coffee is a blend of beans from three countries.

    She made a smooth blend of fruit and yogurt.

    Similarmixture, mix, combination

  2. 2
    verbtransitive
    To mix two or more things together so they join as one.

    Like stirring milk into coffee until you can't see the milk anymore.

    Blend the eggs and sugar before adding the flour.

    She blended the two colors to make a soft green.

    Similarmix, combine, merge, mingle, fuse

    Oppositeseparate

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  3. 3
    verbintransitive
    To mix together with something else.

    Like two streams of water joining to flow as one.

    The two paints blend smoothly at the edges.

    Her voice blended with the music.

    Similarmerge, melt, fade, mingle

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  4. 4
    nouncountable
    A word made by joining parts of two other words.

    Like joining the front of one word and the back of another to make a new word.

    The word 'brunch' is a blend of 'breakfast' and 'lunch'.

    Many new blends appear in slang every year.

    Similarportmanteau

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  1. 5
    verbobsolete
    To spoil or stain something by mixing it with something bad.
    These stormes, which now his beauty blend, Shall turn to calmes.
    1595, Edmund Spenser, “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LXII”Here, blend means to spoil or stain, so the storms spoil his beauty.
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Origin

From Middle English blenden, meaning to mix. It came from Old English or Old Norse words for mixing, and goes back to an old Germanic word.