blenden
German, verb
blenden is a German verb meaning “to dazzle; to blind (confuse someone’s sight by means of excessive brightness)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Blenden is a different word: “plural of Blende”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mittels hellen Lichtes jemandes Sehvermögen beeinträchtigen”.
What does blenden mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dazzle; to blind (confuse someone’s sight by means of excessive brightness)
- 2
to show off; to pose (try to make an impression on someone by behaving affectedly and/or overstating one’s achievements)
- 3
to blind (punish someone by making them blind)
noun
- 1
plural of Blende
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mittels hellen Lichtes jemandes Sehvermögen beeinträchtigen 2. durch Äußerlichkeiten beeindrucken, Schein 3. jemandem das Augenlicht nehmen, die Augen ausstechen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of blenden
- blendet present singular third-person
- blendete past
- geblendet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- blendend participle present
- blende first-person indicative present
- blendest indicative present second-person
- blendeten first-person indicative plural
- blendetest indicative preterite second-person
- blendetet indicative plural preterite
- blend imperative second-person singular
- habe geblendet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geblendet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- blende! imperative singular
- blendet! imperative plural
- geblendet haben active infinitive perfect
- geblendet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- geblendet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to blenden
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is blenden in German?
blenden appears 2.5 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).