/blend/definition

blend

-) Verb.

-) Pronunciation: blɛnd. 

-) Etymology: from Middle English blenden.

-) Preterite tense: blended or blent. 

-) Preterite participle: blended or blent.

-) Present participle: blending.

-) Transitively: 1. To mix (two or more substances or one thing with another) so that they become united or make a new substance. Particularly in cookery: to mix in (a component). 

-) 2. (The subject: somebody or something) to cause (two or more different unmaterial things, as qualities, effects, etc., or one with another) to seem or become one or united; to render confused; to combine the qualities or effects of two factual things so that they become indistinguishable.

-) Synonyms: to unite, mingle.

-) Translation: mélanger, in French; mezclar, in Spanish; unire, in Italian.

[…] he blended his mirth and his earnest so dexterously, that it was impossible for Nigel to discover how far he was serious in his propositions… 

Scott… The Fortunes of Nigel 1822

He saluted me with an air of profound respect, slightly blended with a fatherly and patronizing admiration, wrought in him, no doubt, by my appearance of extreme youth and inexperience.

Edgar Poe

A gentle expression about the mouth is blended with severity and melancholy in the upper portion of the face.

The Works of Hubert Howe

The Danes, after many unsuccessful attempts, subjected a great part of the country to their power, and blended their language with the language of the Saxons; but their language and that of the Saxons, being only different dialects of the same original tongue, mingled without discord, and in a short time were not to be distinguished.

Banks… The English Master 1823

Most of their dark forms were soon blended with the brown covering of the prairie.

Cooper… The Prairie

“Enough, enough, Frank,” said Talbot, with a face in which conscious innocence and manly fortitude were blended.

Marryat… Frank Mildmay 1829

-) Intransitively: 1. (Of two or more unmaterial things) to become so united or confounded as to be indistinguishable.

-) Synonyms: to mix, mingle, commingle, merge, combine.

-) Antonym: to separate.

[…] where thousands of voices blended together in rude harmony.

Prescott… Philip the Second 1857

The distant peaks gradually blended with the white atmosphere above them and lost their definition.

John Tyndall… The Glaciers of the Alps 1860

The moon rose higher, brighter, and a grotesque black shadow galloped over the snow beside him. He turned his head sharply to the other side and watched the sweep of white hills which reached back in range after range until they blended with the shadows of night.

Brand… Riders of the Silences 1919

The trees, the mountain, the old headstone, the man--they blended into a whole.

Max Brand… Trailing! 1919

-) 2. Particularly: (of two or more things) to cause a harmonious effect, as if they were united.

Beyond are the blue hills, dotted with villas and casinos, a shade fainter in colour than their neighbour the sky, with which they blend in one sweet harmonious whole under the mellowing influence of the bright sunshine.

The New Monthly Magazine, vol. 99

-) Words derived from the verb BLEND: blender, blending, unblended, unblendable.