Past tense and past participle of 'blend,' meaning to have mixed or combined different substances or elements together.
From Middle English blenden. 'Blent' is an archaic or poetic form, though 'blended' is now the standard modern past tense. The word appears frequently in poetry and older literature.
Language evolves by dropping irregular verbs: 'blent' was once as normal as 'blended,' but English speakers preferred the regular '-ed' ending, so 'blent' survives mainly in poetry—a living fossil of how we simplify our grammar over centuries.
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