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adjective

blinded adj. Deprived of one's sight; rendered blind.

verb

Blind v. t. (past & past part. blinded; pres. part. blinding)

To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. "To blind the truth and me." "A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is... a much greater."

To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. "Her beauty all the rest did blind."

To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive. "Such darkness blinds the sky." "The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound."

To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

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Etymology of 'Blinded'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blinded" Quotes from Famous Books

... possessed the narrowest limits in consequence. Nor could it be otherwise. Most of them lived in a state of straining two ends across an impossible gulf, and the process reduced them to a condition of pessimism which blinded them to matters ...

— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum

... to dispute the name, saying that in her young days the game was known by the name of "Blind Harry," and when the point was finally settled the game began, and was for some time continued with unabated enjoyment. Aunt Lucinda even allowed herself to be blinded and a very efficient blind woman did she prove, as many of the youngsters could testify who endeavoured to escape from her vigorous grasp. When the company became tired of this lively, but somewhat laborious amusement it was quickly succeeded by others ...

— Walter Harland - Or, Memories of the Past • Harriet S. Caswell

... crossed the room toward a huge door. In an instant he had thrown it open. The bright lights of the office nearly blinded him, and the man behind the desk rose angrily, caught Roger's ...

— Infinite Intruder • Alan Edward Nourse

... back to first principles, is it not that the time are out of joint, and the America herself is responsible for her daughters' shame? America has blinded her eyes with avarice and glutted her brain with greed. She has starved her intellect and gorged her ambition. She has bartered her birthright of nobility and sold her soul to crawling sycophants. She has prostituted her sceptre of power to trusts ...

— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... night, of storm, and danger, Nora hurried desperately on. She was blinded by the darkness and smothered by the thickly-falling snow, and torn by the thorns and briars of the brushwood; but not for these impediments would the frantic girl abate her speed. She slipped often, hurt ...

— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

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