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blend

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1. blend - Noun

2. blend - Adjective

3. blend - Verb

Meaning

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.

To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.

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.

To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in. Paris Hilton

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. William Wordsworth

We are a blend of dust and divinity. Huston Smith

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement. Leon Trotsky

If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character. Margaret Mead

To know means to record in one's memory but to understand means to blend with the thing and to assimilate it oneself. Traditional Proverb

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