blessverb [ T ]
uk/bles/us/bles/past tense and past participle blessed or literary blestto ask for God's help and protection for someone or something, or to call or make someone or something holy
Examples
- May God bless you.
- The priest blessed their marriage.
- He blessed the food before passing it around.
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Religious practices
- agarbatti
- anoint
- baptize
- celebrate
- church
- confess
- confession
- genuflect
- genuflection
- go into/enter the church idiom
- hadj
- hajj
- observance
- pilgrimage
- purdah
- reborn
- revival
- revival meeting
- televangelism
- veil
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Idiom(s)
bless!
bless their little cotton socks
bless my soul!
bless you!
bless you