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The Meaning of bless
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(v. t.) To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate
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(v. t.) To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.
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(v. t.) To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.
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(v. t.) To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.
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(v. t.) To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self).
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(v. t.) To guard; to keep; to protect.
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(v. t.) To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.
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(v. t.) To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.
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(v. t.) To wave; to brandish.
Synonyms
hallow
,
sign
,
consecrate
,
sanctify
,
ratify
,
signalize
,
sign up
,
sign on
,
signal
,
contract
,
subscribe
,
signalise
,
purify
,
give
,
dedicate
,
commit
,
ordinate
,
vow
,
order
,
ordain
,
devote
,
purge
,
raise
,
conjure
,
conjure up
,
invoke
,
evoke
,
stir
,
call down
,
arouse
,
bring up
,
put forward
,
call forth
Antonyms
curse
,
bedamn
,
anathemize
,
imprecate
,
damn
,
anathemise
,
beshrew
,
maledict
Rhymes
abs
,
abscess
,
abts
,
access
,
acquiesce
,
address
,
adss
,
aggress
,
assess
,
attests
,
bess
,
besse
,
bress
,
bresse
,
caress
,
ccs
,
ches
,
chess
,
cmos
,
coalesce
,
compress
,
confess
,
contests
,
convalesce
,
cress
,
depress
,
digests
,
digress
,
dispossess
,
distress
,
dress
,
egress
,
ellesse
,
ess
,
esse
,
etess
,
excess
,
express
,
fess
,
finesse
,
fluoresce
,
fress
,
gess
,
gless
,
gress
,
guess
,
hces
,
headdress
,
hess
,
hesse
,
impress
,
ines
,
inverness
,
jess
,
kess
,
kless
,
kness
,
kress
,
kresse
,
kubes
,
largesse
,
lcs
,
les
,
less
,
letterpress
,
ls
,
mess
,
ness
,
nevertheless
,
noblesse
,
nonetheless
,
oas
,
obsess
,
oppress
,
outguess
,
overdress
,
pesce
,
pless
,
possess
,
press
,
presse
,
process
,
profess
,
progress
,
protests
,
ques
,
reassess
,
recess
,
redress
,
refenes
,
regress
,
reinvests
,
repossess
,
repress
,
requests
,
ress
,
s
,
simplesse
,
stds
,
stress
,
success
,
suppress
,
tcas
,
tess
,
transgress
,
tress
,
ts
,
undress
,
unless
,
uss
,
vess
,
watercress
,
wes
,
wess
,
ws
,
yes