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Blind

adjective

Unable to see. Synonym: unsighted.

Unable or unwilling to perceive or understand. "Blind to the consequences of their actions"

Not based on reason or evidence. Synonym: unreasoning. "Blind faith" , "Unreasoning panic"

noun

People who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group.

A hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters).

A protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight. Synonym: screen.

Something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity. Synonym: subterfuge. "The holding company was just a blind"

verb

(past & past part. blinded; pres. part. blinding)

Render unable to see.

Make blind by putting the eyes out.

Make dim by comparison or conceal. Synonym: dim.

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"Blind" Quotes from Famous Books

... at him with vaguely frightened eyes.) It's had a good start—thanks to her father's blind selfishness—but let's hope that can be overcome. The important thing is to ship her off to a sanatorium immediately. Carmody wouldn't hear of it at first. However, I managed to bully him into consenting; but I don't trust his word. That's where you can be of help. It's up to you to convince him ...

— The Straw • Eugene O'Neill

... Always against blind mobs and tyrants deaf, I, the pride of the chosen few, the stay Of the great best, returning from exile, A billow-tossed world-wanderer, did stir The selfsame lyre with a new quill and breathed Upon its strings ...

— Life Immovable - First Part • Kostes Palamas

... self-confidence and vanity which may delude a man into thinking himself the conqueror of a woman's heart, the danger of going, carelessly, on in a suspicious matter without looking forward to possible consequences. I saw the folly of thoughtlessness, of blind self-confidence, of reckless trust in the honesty of others and the luck of oneself. I had learned the necessity of caution, of foresight, of suspicion; and perhaps I should have to pay for the ...

— An Enemy To The King • Robert Neilson Stephens

... keen interest the developments in our national progress as they unrolled themselves before his eyes, and when the occasion offered he took active part in furthering what he considered the right and in vigorously denouncing the wrong. He was never blind to our national or party failings, but held the mirror up before his countrymen's eyes with steady hand, and yet he was prouder of being an American than of anything else, and, as I have had occasion to remark before, his ruling passion was an intense desire to accomplish some great ...

— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Samuel F. B. Morse

... that's easy," cried Tom. "A clothespin is for sticking something fast, and we are stuck fast. Now, can't you see the joke, as the blind astronomer said to ...

— The Rover Boys in Southern Waters - or The Deserted Steam Yacht • Arthur M. Winfield

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