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blun

blun is the 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 blun

alternative formblinned

Questions about blun

What is blun the past participle of?
Blun is the past participle of blin.

Words near blun in the dictionary

  1. blumpkins
  2. Blums
  3. blumsak
  4. Blumstein
  5. Blumsteins
  6. blun
  7. blunch
  8. Blunck
  9. Bluncks
  10. Blundell
  11. Blundellian

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