" blended "

[Verb]  | "blend" | \ ˈblend \

1: mix; especially : to combine or associate so that the separate constituents or the line of demarcation cannot be distinguished

2: to prepare by thoroughly intermingling different varieties or grades

3: to mingle intimately or unobtrusively

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English blenden, blinden "to mix, blend, intersperse, have dealings (with)," probably borrowed from an Old Norse predecessor of Old Icelandic blend (1st singular), blendr (3rd singular), present tense forms of blanda "to mix in, blend," going back to Germanic *blanda- "to mix, mingle," probably originally "to make murky or obscure" (whence also Old English blandan, blondan, geblandan "to mix, blend," Old Saxon giblandan "blended, mingled," Middle Dutch blanden "to mix," Old High German blantan "to produce, bring about" [Middle High German blanden "to make turbid, mix, bring about"], Gothic sik blandan "to associate with"), o-grade causative from a dialectal Indo-European base *bhlendh- "become murky or cloudy, see: poorly" whence also Old Church Slavic blędǫ, blęsti "to chatter, talk nonsense," blǫždǫ, blǫditi "to wander," Polish błąd "error," Lithuanian bleñdžiasi, blę͂stis "to become dark," blandùs "impure, murky, dark";

  * Note : The verb *bhlendh- is among a group of roots that J. Pokorny (Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch) took as "extensions" (Erweiterungen) from zero-grade of *bhel- "shine" (see: {bald:1|bald:1}). But, aside from semantic issues, this use of extensions is so unconstrained that any phonotactically appropriate verbal base beginning with *bhl- that might have the vaguest figurative connection to light or vision can be claimed as a derivative of *bhel-. If such extensions explain so little, there is little reason to evoke them, and etyma such as *bhlendh- stand on their own. See also {blind:1|blind:1}, {blende|blende}, {blunder:1|blunder:1}.;

[Noun]  | "blended family" 

1: a family that includes children of a previous marriage of one spouse or both

Origin: 1972 ;

[Noun]  | "blended whiskey" 

1: whiskey blended from two or more straight whiskeys or from whiskey and neutral spirits

Origin: 1876 ;

[Phrasal verb]  | "blend in" 

1: to look like things nearby

2: to look like one belongs with a particular group —often + with

3: to add (something) to a mixture or substance and mix it thoroughly

[Phrasal verb]  | "blend into" 

1: to gradually become the same as or part of (something)

2: to look like (one's surroundings)

3: to look like one belongs in (something)

[Adjective]  | "blended" 

[Verb]  | "blended" 

[Verb]  | "blend" 

[Verb]  | "blended (with)" 

[Noun]  | "blended family" 

[Noun]  | "blended families"