blend
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
blend/blend/
▶verb
- 1 mix and combine (something) with something else.
■ form a harmonious combination.
- 2 be an unobtrusive part of a whole: a bodyguard has to blend in.
- 1 a mixture of different things or people.
- 2 a word made up of the parts and combining the meanings of two others, for example motel from motor and hotel.
– origin ME: prob. of Scand. origin and rel. to ON blanda ‘to mix’.
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- alkyd
- altazimuth
- amalgam
- ampicillin
- arcology
- Artex
- atrazine
- bahookie
- bash
- bazillion
- birdseed
- bit
- blent
- blotch
- blunge
- boatel
- bodacious
- breathalyser
- Bren gun
- broast
- bustard
- cambazola
- camouflage
- cantankerous
- caplet
- carborundum
- carjacking
- celebutante
- cermet
- chine
- chloral
- chortle
- chromoly
- chump
- circlip
- cobalamin
- codec
- commingle
- compander
- conformer
- cosplay
- coucal
