Verb

To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.

To be mingled or mixed.

* Irving

There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.

* To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent - , 1884

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(obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

(Spenser)

Verb

(en verb)

To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.

Now the cream is churned to make butter.

* Addison

Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose.

(figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.

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The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge.

To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.

I was so nervous my stomach was churning .