blin
1 synonym for blin, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — (archaic) To stop doing something; to give up an action.
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Blin traces back through Middle English blinnen to Old English blinnan (“to stop, cease”), which came from Proto-Germanic *bilinnaną (“to turn aside, swerve from”), in turn from Proto-Indo-European *ley-, *leya- (“to deflect, turn away, vanish, slip”); it is equivalent to be- + lin. It is cognate with Old High German b...
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