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| 4 results for blinding | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Blind \Blind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blinded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blinding}.] 1. To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. [bd]To blind the truth and me.[b8] --Tennyson. A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. --South. 2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. Her beauty all the rest did blind. --P. Fletcher. 3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive. Such darkness blinds the sky. --Dryden. The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. --Stillingfleet. 4. 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. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Blinding \Blind"ing\, a. Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Blinding \Blind"ing\, n. A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See {Blind}, v. t., 4. | |
