Bleat vs Blest - What's the difference?
bleat | blest |
Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry.
(informal) Of a person, to complain.
: (bless)
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As verbs the difference between bleat and blest
is that bleat is of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry while blest is : (bless).As a noun bleat
is the characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.bleat
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* (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
* * * ----blest
English
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* blessed * (Archaic)Verb
(head)- Doth she not count her blest , / Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought / So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?
- I hold myself supremely blest — blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.