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/blˈaɪndɪŋ/ Listen

adjective

Blinding adj. Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.

noun

Blinding n. A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.

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 'Blinding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blinding" Quotes from Famous Books

... perceived its conquering sword winning fresh victories, and extending its dominions towards the East and the South, but especially towards the North. He saw the most powerful of nations do it homage; he saw the guardian-angels of Islam close their eyes before the blinding flashes of the triumphant swords of the sons of Osman, and hasten to record in the Book of the Future events very different from those which ...

— Halil the Pedlar - A Tale of Old Stambul • Mr Jkai

... miniature blizzard. As the swiftly turning discs sent clouds of white dust into the air it settled on the hair, faces, eyelashes, and clothing until the laborers looked like snow men moving amid the blinding flakes of an old-fashioned storm. Peter and Nat, who looked on, began to be changed into ...

— The Story of Leather • Sara Ware Bassett

... the Army at Camp Gordon, Georgia, and was still in uniform at the time of the brutal attack that blinded him. His case was quickly taken up by the NAACP and became the centerpiece of a national protest.[5-15] Not only did the civil rights spokesmen protest the sadistic blinding, they also charged that the Army was incapable of protecting its ...

— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.

... suddenly up a hill and glided through two iron gates opening on the lawn and the great white chateau loomed before them in a flash of blinding beauty. ...

— The Root of Evil • Thomas Dixon

... opera and Harry Junior was screaming in his crib, Melinda would naturally have slammed the front door in the little man's face. However, when the bell rang, she was wearing her new Chinese red housecoat, had just lustered her nails to a blinding scarlet, and Harry Junior ...

— Teething Ring • James Causey

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