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blinned

blinned is the simple past and past participle of blin.

Meaning of blin

Verb

blin (third-person singular simple present blins, present participle blinning, simple past blinned or blan, past participle blinned or blan or blun)

  1. (Scotland, Yorkshire, especially, obsolete, Northumberland) To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    stop

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Forms of blinned

alternative formblan
alternative formblun

Questions about blinned

What is blinned the simple past and past participle of?
Blinned is the simple past and past participle of blin.

Words near blinned in the dictionary

  1. blinks first
  2. blinks of an eye
  3. blinkt
  4. blinky
  5. Blinn
  6. blinned
  7. blinnies
  8. blinning
  9. Blinns
  10. blinny
  11. blins

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