Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Preterit and past participle of blend.
- noun Past participle of blend.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imperative, past participle obsolete Blinded. Also (Chaucer), 3d sing. pres. Blindeth.
- imperative, past participle Mingled; mixed; blended; also, polluted; stained.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic, poetic Simple past tense and past participle of
blend .
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Examples
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The bedroom was huge and also equipped with another gorgeous chandelier, the reverse side of the TV that also blent into the mirror, as well as some mighty fine furniture.
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Sleeps Where? In Paris, For Luxury, Hotel Plaza Athenee Mara Gibbs 2011
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The bedroom was huge and also equipped with another gorgeous chandelier, the reverse side of the TV that also blent into the mirror, as well as some mighty fine furniture.
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Sleeps Where? In Paris, For Luxury, Hotel Plaza Athenee Mara Gibbs 2011
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Than where the cold scorn with anger blent in the eyes of Solomon Kane.
Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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The quick tropic twilight swiftly blent day and darkness.
CHAPTER IX 2010
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The bedroom was huge and also equipped with another gorgeous chandelier, the reverse side of the TV that also blent into the mirror, as well as some mighty fine furniture.
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Sleeps Where? In Paris, For Luxury, Hotel Plaza Athenee Mara Gibbs 2011
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And your splendour illumined the glooms that blent:
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Marids and guards before him; and when I saw him my sight was blent for that which was upon him of jewels; but when he saw me, he rose to his feet and all his officers rose also, to do him worship.
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I guess we could say that 42short 'blied' or 'blent ablay.'
All we need is Blog? Ed 2006
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We fled from him right and left and he saw us not, for his sight was altogether blent; but we were in terrible fear of him and made sure we were dead men despairing of escape.
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Moreover temperate is her air, and with fragrance blent, Which surpasseth aloes wood in scent; and how should it be otherwise, she being the Mother of the World?
yarb commented on the word blent
Past participle / past tense of to blend.
Why did this fall out of use to be replaced by the rather gawky blended?
"He sat watching her till the upper lashes met and mingled with the lower, and their blent shadow lay on her cheek; then he stood up and drew the curtain over the lamp, drowning the compartment in a bluish twilight."
- Edith Wharton, The Reef
June 18, 2008
bilby commented on the word blent
It just wended out of fashion, more's the pity.
June 18, 2008
asativum commented on the word blent
Nice one, bilby! And nice word, yarb.
June 18, 2008
whichbe commented on the word blent
A cute synonym for portmanteau.
November 5, 2008
milosrdenstvi commented on the word blent
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A serious house on serious earth it is,
In whose blent air all our compulsions meet,
Are recognised, and robed as destinies.
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Philip Larkin, Church Going
June 17, 2010