Usually means: Bestows favor, prosperity, or happiness.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. blesses: Merriam-Webster
  2. blesses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. blesses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Blesses, blesses: Wordnik
  5. blesses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. blesses: Wiktionary
  7. blesses: Dictionary.com
  8. blesses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. blesses: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. blesses: Idioms

(Note: See bless as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Bless)

verb:  To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify.
verb:  To invoke divine favor upon.
verb:  To honor as holy, glorify; to extol for excellence.
verb:  To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.
verb:  (Christianity) To make the sign of the cross upon, so as to sanctify.
verb:  (obsolete) To wave; to brandish.
verb:  (Perl programming, transitive, past tense only blessed) To turn (a reference) into an object.
verb:  (archaic, with from) To secure, defend, or prevent from.
verb:  (MTE, slang) To give or send.
verb:  (transitive) To approve of or assent to.
verb:  (Philippines) To perform the mano gesture; taking of an elder's hand to press it to one's forehead or kiss it (as a sign of respect)
noun:  A surname from German.
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