to mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. hence: to confuse; to confound.-to pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.-to mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.-a thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.-to make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive.