Blend
Blend (blend) , transitive verb
[Old English blenden, blanden, Anglo-Saxon blandan to blend, mix; akin to Gothic blandan to mix, Icelandic blanda, Swedish blanda, Danish blande, Old High German blantan to mis; to unknown origin.]
1.
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.
Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay.
2.
To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. [Obsolete] — Spenser
Blend ({not transcribed}) , intransitive verb
To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.
There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.
Blend , noun
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.
Blend , transitive verb
[Anglo-Saxon blendan, from blind blind. See Blind, a.]
To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive. [Obsolete] — Chaucer