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BLENDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable
Classified under:
Similar:
alloyed ((used of metals) blended to obtain a desired property)
homogenised; homogenized (formed by blending unlike elements especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance)
Antonym:
unblended (not blended or mixed together)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb blend
Context examples:
A rude noise broke on these fine ripplings and whisperings, at once so far away and so clear: a positive tramp, tramp, a metallic clatter, which effaced the soft wave-wanderings; as, in a picture, the solid mass of a crag, or the rough boles of a great oak, drawn in dark and strong on the foreground, efface the aerial distance of azure hill, sunny horizon, and blended clouds where tint melts into tint.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I never saw, in any painting or reality, horror and compassion so impressively blended.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
His first wooing had been of the tempestuous order, and he looked back upon it as if through a long vista of years with a feeling of compassion blended with regret.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“Oh!” cried Emma, “I know there is not a better creature in the world: but you must allow, that what is good and what is ridiculous are most unfortunately blended in her.”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
How different had this scene looked when I viewed it laid out beneath the iron sky of winter, stiffened in frost, shrouded with snow!—when mists as chill as death wandered to the impulse of east winds along those purple peaks, and rolled down ing and holm till they blended with the frozen fog of the beck!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mr. Micawber roused me from this reflection, which was blended with a certain remorseful apprehension of seeing Steerforth himself, by bestowing many encomiums on the absent Littimer as a most respectable fellow, and a thoroughly admirable servant.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
