Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to blin
Participle: blinned
Gerund: blinning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | blin |
| you | blin |
| he;she;it | blins |
| we | blin |
| you | blin |
| they | blin |
Perfect
| I | have blinned |
| you | have blinned |
| he;she;it | has blinned |
| we | have blinned |
| you | have blinned |
| they | have blinned |
Past
| I | blinned |
| you | blinned |
| he;she;it | blinned |
| we | blinned |
| you | blinned |
| they | blinned |
Pluperfect
| I | had blinned |
| you | had blinned |
| he;she;it | had blinned |
| we | had blinned |
| you | had blinned |
| they | had blinned |
Future
| I | will blin |
| you | will blin |
| he;she;it | will blin |
| we | will blin |
| you | will blin |
| they | will blin |
Future Perfect
| I | will have blinned |
| you | will have blinned |
| he;she;it | will have blinned |
| we | will have blinned |
| you | will have blinned |
| they | will have blinned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | blin |
| you | blin |
| he;she;it | blin |
| we | blin |
| you | blin |
| they | blin |
Perfect
| I | have blinned |
| you | have blinned |
| he;she;it | have blinned |
| we | have blinned |
| you | have blinned |
| they | have blinned |
Imperfect
| I | blinned |
| you | blinned |
| he;she;it | blinned |
| we | blinned |
| you | blinned |
| they | blinned |
Pluperfect
| I | had blinned |
| you | had blinned |
| he;she;it | had blinned |
| we | had blinned |
| you | had blinned |
| they | had blinned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would blin |
| you | would blin |
| he;she;it | would blin |
| we | would blin |
| you | would blin |
| they | would blin |
Perfect
| I | would have blinned |
| you | would have blinned |
| he;she;it | would have blinned |
| we | would have blinned |
| you | would have blinned |
| they | would have blinned |
Imperative
| you | blin |
| we | Let's blin |
| you | blin |
Verbs conjugated like 'blin'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'blin'
bein,
bin,
blind,
blink,
blip,
blit,
lin,
alien,
align,
aline,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to cease
- desist, stop
- to cease to proceed or act
- absist, belay, break off, cease, cess, cheese it, come to an end, desist, discontinue, forbear, halt, have done with, hold, leave off, let up, rest, stanch, staunch, stay, stop, surcease, terminate
- to cease moving; to come to a stand or standstill
- anchor, astand, brake, cease, draw up, grind to a halt, halt, hold, stall, stay, stop
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English blinnen, from Old English blinnan (“to stop, cease”), from Proto-Germanic *bilinnaną (“to turn aside, swerve from”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley-, *leya- (“to deflect, turn away, vanish, slip”); equivalent to be- + lin. Cognate with Old High German bilinnan (“to yield, stop, forlet, give away”), Old Norse linna (Swedish dialectal linna, “to pause, rest”). See also lin. See: Middle English '
blinnen', Old English '
blinnan', Old High German 'bilinnan'.
Sample Sentences
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nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...]. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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One while the little foot page went, / And another while he ran; / Until he came to his journey's end / The little foot page never blan. [1846, Moses Aaron Richardson, The Borderer's Table Book: Or, Gatherings of the Local History and Romance of the English and Scottish Border, VI, 46:]
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A child may cry for half an hour, and never blin ; it may rain all day, and never blin ; the train ran 100 miles, and never blinned. [1880, Margaret Ann Courtney, English Dialect Society, Glossary of words in use in Cornwall:]
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Thus blinned their boast, as we well ken [1908, John Masefield, A sailor's garland:]