- blessed, blest - highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income"
- bless - give a benediction to; "The dying man blessed his son"
--1 is one way to raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
Antonyms: curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun blessing4, noun blessing5
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- bless - confer prosperity or happiness on
--2 is one way to confer, bestow
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- bless, sign - make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate
--3 is one way to gesticulate, gesture, motion
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- consecrate, bless, hallow, sanctify - render holy by means of religious rites
--4 is one way to declare
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- bless, sign - make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate