bless
bless has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.
Definitions
- v. t.. To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate
- v. t.. To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.
- v. t.. To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.
- v. t.. To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.
- v. t.. To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self).
- v. t.. To guard; to keep; to protect.
- v. t.. To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.
- v. t.. To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.
- v. t.. To wave; to brandish.
- v.. give a benediction to; "The dying man blessed his son"
- v.. render holy by means of religious rites
- v.. make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate