Bleat vs Blent - What's the difference?
bleat | blent |
Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry.
(informal) Of a person, to complain.
(archaic, poetic) (blend)
*1849 , , Shirley .
*:She would return home comforted, carrying in her mind a clearer vision of his aspect, a distincter recollection of his voice, his smile, his hearing; and, blent with these impressions, was often a sweet persuasion that, if she could get near him, his heart might welcome her presence yet: that at this moment he might be willing to extend his hand and draw her to him, and shelter her at his side as he used to do.
* {{quote-book, title=, year=1883, author=Omar Khayyám, trans. Edward Henry Whinfield, other=, section=No. 96, page=66, passage=
The good and evil with man's nature blent , / The weal and woe that heaven's decrees have sent— / Impute them not to motions of the skies— / Skies than thyself ten times more impotent.}}
* 1908 , , Anne of Green Gables
As verbs the difference between bleat and blent
is that bleat is of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry while blent is (archaic|poetic) (blend).As a noun bleat
is the characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.bleat
English
Alternative forms
* (Scotland)Synonyms
* (sheep's cry ) baa, baaing, bleatingVerb
(en verb)- The last thing we need is to hear them bleating to us about organizational problems.
Synonyms
* (1): baa * (2): kvetch (US''), moan, whinge (''British ), whineAnagrams
* * * ----blent
English
Verb
(head)- There was such a nice frosty, Octobery smell in the air, blent with the delightful odor of newly plowed fields.