-n.3. combination, amalgamation, assimilation, incorporation; mixture, admixture, commixture, intermixture, mingling, intermingling, commingling; junction, union, fusion, synthesis; hybridization, mongreli-zation, homogenization; hybrid, mongrel, half-breed,
bless, v. 1. consecrate, sanctify, hallow, dedicate; glorify, extol, praise, exalt, honor; canonize, Rom. Cath. Ch.
beatify, make holy, baptize, anoint; make the sign of the cross, Archaic, sain, give benediction; absolve, pardon, acquit.
2. sanction, approve, be in favor of, support, endorse, countenance, smile upon; assent, consent, permit, allow,
blessed, adj.1. consecrated, sanctified, hallowed, sacred, holy, divine; venerated, reverenced, revered; glorified, extolled, exalted; sainted, canonized, Rom. Cath. Ch.
beatified.
2. happy, joyful, joyous, exultant, blissful; elated, buoyant, sunny, cheerful, blithe; glad, pleased, contented.
3. fortunate, favored, lucky; endowed, granted, bequeathed, furnished, provided, supplied.
blessing, n.1. benediction, Archaic, benison, grace, thanksgiving, prayer, invocation; devotion, worship, praise, honor, glorification, exaltation; absolution, pardon, acquittal.
2. benefit, boon, advantage, profit, gain; favor, luck, good fortune, relief; bounty, gift, gratuity, alms, offering, benefaction,
blight, n.1. affliction, infliction, infestation, plague, scourge, bane; pestilence, disease, sickness, illness, Pathol,
rot, Plant Pathol,
dry rot, Vet. Pathol. worms; ulcer, canker, sore; fungus, mold, mildew, mucor.
2. curse, misfortune, bad luck, ill fortune, calamity; trouble, woe, tribulation, vexation, torment.
-v. 3. blast, plague, scourge, afflict, inflict; destroy, ruin, devastate, kill.
4. wither, shrivel, ulcerate; mildew, rot, decay, die.
blind, adj.1. sightless, visionless, unsighted, unseeing, eyeless, stone-blind, amaurotic; purblind, partially sighted, blear-eyed, Ophthal.
hemeralopic, Ophthal.
nyctalopic.
2. obtuse, thick, dense, imperceptive, short-sighted; retarded, slow, dull, bovine, stolid, feeble-minded, weak-minded, weak-headed, slow-witted, stupid, Sl. dim-witted, Inf.dumb.
3. rash, impetuous, hasty, reckless, uncontrolled, unrestrained, wild, savage, violent, furious; irrational, unreasonable, unreasoning, mindless, senseless, unthinking, thoughtless, uncritical, undiscerning; unfathomable, incomprehensible, hard to see orunderstand.
4. ignorant, nescient, naive, unaware, unenlightened, unacquainted, unconversant, unversed; incognizant, unknowing, unapprised, uninformed; insensitive, insensible, unconscious, unfeeling; indifferent, insusceptible, unaffected, untouched, unmoved.
5. concealed, obscure, covered, hidden, hideaway, out of sight orview; undisclosed, unrevealed, unknown; anonymous, unidentified, unnamed.
6. closed, shut, sealed; obstructed, blocked, barred, blockaded, barricaded; impassable, dead-end, without exit.
-v. 7. poke orput [s.o.'s] eyes out, gouge out the eyes of, render sightless, deprive of sight; cut off [s.o.'s] view, block [s.o.'s] line of vision, blindfold, get in [s.o.'s] way, Archaic, hoodwink.
8. conceal, hide, cover up, screen; obfuscate, obscure, cloud over, fog up, adumbrate, muddy.