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blandishing
Overview of verb blandish
The verb blandish has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. flatter, blandish -- (praise somewhat dishonestly)
Antonyms of verb blandish
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb blandish
1 sense of blandish
Sense 1
flatter, blandish
=> praise
=> measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, appraise, value
=> evaluate, pass judgment, judge
=> think, cogitate, cerebrate
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb blandish
1 sense of blandish
Sense 1
flatter, blandish
=> soft-soap
=> adulate
=> stroke
=> fawn, toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up
=> butter up, brown-nose
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb blandish
1 sense of blandish
Sense 1
flatter, blandish
=> praise
'Cause To' of verb blandish
Derived Forms of verb blandish
1 sense of blandish
Sense 1
flatter, blandish
RELATED TO>(noun) blandishment#1
=> blandishment, cajolery, palaver
RELATED TO>(noun) blandishment#2
=> blandishment, wheedling
Domain of verb blandish
Domain Terms of verb blandish
Familiarity of verb blandish
blandish used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb blandish
1 sense of blandish
Sense 1
flatter, blandish
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Something ----s somebody
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb blandish
1 sense of blandish
Sense 1
flatter, blandish
> praise
=> troll
=> salute
=> applaud
=> laud, extol, exalt, glorify, proclaim
=> flatter, blandish
=> eulogize, eulogise
=> compliment, congratulate
=> rave, gush
=> commend
=> commend, recommend
=> advertise, advertize, promote, push
=> puff, puff up
=> sonnet
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb blandish
Sense 1
flatter, blandish
=> praise
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Grep of verb blandish
blandish
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