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🎨 To blend gently 🙅 To interfere
to mell

to mell

9.9
Mix things gently so they become smooth and soft
  • verb
  • /mɛl/
  • Archaic
translation icon : mezclar
  • In old recipes, cooks would mell the ingredients slowly to create a smooth mixture.

Examples

  • The flavors mell beautifully in this dish.

  • Her voice seemed to mell with the soft music in the background.

  • The poet used the word mell to describe the gentle blending of colors at sunset.

  • When you mell the ingredients, they create a delightful aroma.

  • In old recipes, cooks would mell the ingredients slowly to create a smooth mixture.

  • Her voice seemed to mell with the soft music in the background.

  • When you mell the ingredients, they create a delightful aroma.

Synonyms

to meld
vsto mell
18 5.3

To mix things so they become one

mixes softly and sweetly instead of fusing things into a single whole
to admix
vsto mell
1 8.8

To mix one substance with another so they become combined

mixes more gently and sweetly rather than simply combining substances

How Blended

to fuse
44 3.9
to meld
18 5.3
to mell
  • Archaic
9.9
to blend
255 2.3
to mingle
34 3.3

Surface Forms

mell infinitive
melled past
melled past participle
melling present participle
mells third person singular

Etymology

Mell once meant 'to blend' gently, like colours or flavours, and a helpful way to remember it is to think of the familiar word mellow, which gives a soft, smooth feeling. So mell means to make things mix gently and sweetly.