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Verb bless has 4 senses
- 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:
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
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