Bless

What do we mean by bless?

To make holy by religious rite; sanctify. transitive verb

To invoke divine favor upon: transitive verb

To make the sign of the cross over. transitive verb

To honor as holy; glorify. transitive verb

To confer well-being or prosperity on. transitive verb

To endow, as with talent. transitive verb

(bless you) Used to wish good health to a person who has just sneezed. idiom

To consecrate or set apart to holy or sacred purposes; make or pronounce holy: formerly occasionally used of persons.

To consecrate (a thing) by a religious rite, as with prayer and thanksgiving; consecrate or hallow by asking God's blessing on: as, to bless food.

To sanctify (one's self) by making the sign of the cross, especially as a defense against evil influences or agencies: used reflexively.

To defend; preserve; protect or guard from evil; reflexively, to guard one's self from; avoid; eschew.

To invoke or pronounce a blessing upon (another or others); commend to God's favor or protection.

To confer well-being upon; bestow happiness, prosperity, or good of any kind upon; make happy, prosperous, or fortunate; prosper with temporal or spiritual benefits: as, a nation blessed with peace and plenty.

To favor (with); make happy or fortunate by some specified means: as, blessed with a good constitution; blessed with filial children.

To praise or extol as holy or worthy of reverence, or

As the giver of benefits; extol or glorify with thankful acknowledgment of benefits received.

To esteem or account happy; congratulate; felicitate: used reflexively.

Often used in exclamations with various shades of meaning departing more or less widely from the literal sense: as, God bless me! bless you! bless the mark! etc.

To ejaculate “Bless me,” “God bless me,” or the like.

To wound; hurt; beat; thump.

To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify.

To make the sign of the cross upon, so as to sanctify.

To invoke divine favor upon.

To honor as holy, glorify; to extol for excellence.

To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.

To wave; to brandish.

(past tense only blessed) To turn (a reference) into an object.

(with from) To secure, defend, or prevent from.

Words that are spelled similarly to bless:
bless, bliss, less, blest, bess, blass, -less, bloss, blebs, bles, gless, pless, blesh, bleus, blees, bress, bleps, bleys, sless.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word bless:
ultima, beasts, blessing, thee, thy, blessings, amen, curse, thou, blessed, pray, anthem, bride, mess, hymn, dear, god, patriotic, you, communion, soul, faithful, abraham, prayer, america, your, hearts, prayers, kiss, bread, fiji, luck, stretch, child, gifts, homeland, our, holy, beats, lord, ghana, feast, sung, heaven, tiny, forever, descendants, isaac, rabbi, praise, banner, ceremonies, jacob, priest, shall, broken, peace, celebrate, wish, poem, sing, indeed, israel, jesus, marriage, grace, sacred, wedding, everyone, usa, christ, couples, gospel, pointed.

Words that rhyme with bless:
process, address, access, assess, press, express, s, stress, progress, success, nevertheless, recess, less, distress, acquiesce, dress, coalesce, egress, finesse, possess, guess, mess, suppress, excess, redress, nonetheless, abscess, impress, digress, ness, esse, largesse, regress, profess, obsess, yes, cress, caress, confess, unless, transgress, chess, oppress, compress, es, depress, repress, abs, tress, ess, reassess, tess, fess, convalesce, jess, ls, dispossess, hess, hesse, les, aggress, ccs, bess, oas, undress, noblesse, watercress, gress, repossess, ts, headdress, ines, letterpress, cbs, attests, dss, ws, more or less, fesse, due process, ques, uss, inverness, overdress, wes, nes, cmos, fluoresce, winter cress, fress, lcs, evening dress, requests, name and address, work in progress, damsel in distress, in progress, outguess, bessemer process, bench press.

Adjectives that are often used to describe bless:
god, good, several, poor, french, prime, ever, merciful, contrary, goddess, light, goodness, rich, righteous, spiritual, dear, infinite, holy, gord, happy, almighty, divine, temperate, secret, blessed, maker, sunbeams, evil, twice, faithful, gawd, unhappy, mighty, prolific, heavenly, happier, lord, genius, fatherless, ecclesiastical, laborious, beloved, sure, wretched, meanest, olympian, sacrificial, cod, canst, doubtful, universe, may, unmixed, virtuous, otho, shouldest, ardent, earthly, conquered, oppressor, lard, sick, lor, gracious.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective bless:
god, mankind, heaven, others, soul, yer, wade, relaxes, ings, humanity, people, men, name, israel, ing, society, heart, children, thee, him, papa, america, yon, everything, everyone, mahomet, marriages, everybody, servants, servant, generations, fathers, art, stalin, homeward, providence, love, earth, churches, muhammad, kings, buck, past, mother, sonia, jehovah, carlyle, honors, punch, yahweh, doctors, has, christ, adonai, mortals, lord, kleon, unions, honour, beasts, hashem, blessing, ages, souls, latin, yhwh, yous, ear, homes, goodness, sin, mazzini, millions, daddy, masa, the, chalices, engraving, blessed, mine, mahneto, knights.

Consonant match to bless:
bliss, blouse, blass, blas, blowse, bloss.

Words that sound like bless:
bless, blesse, bliss, blis, blouse, blas, bloss, blass, blowse, blois, bleus, blais, pless, blessed, blues, blaze, plus, blows, bess, blest, blase, bleh, blaise, pluss, blahs, bluse, blesser, blose, blaize, blos, plis, blies, besse, b s, blesh, blue's, pliss, blts, blowze, plisse, place, plas, plass, plasse, plos, ploss, bus, blush, bias, blitz, buss, bas, bis, bla, biss, bluffs, bolus, blissed, blyth, blits, blish, bayless, blips, blitch, bous, blust, balas, bullis, bellis, bayliss, baylis, busse, blix, iblis, buice, byas, byss, bellus, ballasts, bolis, bilis, blisk, buhs, bowlus, bayas, eblis, bulis, bullace, bisse, bullous, bowless, alice, alis, allis, baez, alyce, allus, balise, baisse, -blast.