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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

... the most exhaustive of his writings, and important to us as showing how firmly and confidently his idea of the Christian Church, as a community of the faithful, was maintained amidst all the practical difficulties which events prepared. He complains of the substitution of the blind, unmeaning word 'Church'—and that even in the Catechism for the young—for the Greek word in the New Testament 'Ecclesia,' as the name of the community or assembly of Christian people. Much misery, he ...

— Life of Luther • Julius Koestlin

... and let the future bring what it may. But that would be the speech of one having no faith in the all-watching Eye, and regarding the eternal laws of the universe not as an emanation of a bountiful Providence, but of a blind fatality, which plays at hazard with the destinies of men. I never will share such blasphemy. Misfortune came over me, and came over my house, and came over my guiltless nation; still I never have lost my trust in the Father of all. I have ...

— Select Speeches of Kossuth • Kossuth

... from the cave and left the blind giant groaning and raging with pain. Groping with his hands, he found the great stone that blocked the door, lifted it away, and sat himself down in the mouth of the cave, with his arms stretched out, hoping to catch Odysseus and his men if they should try to escape. ...

— Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) • Various

... a sharp whistle from the locomotive—who invented that whistle to pierce so many bosoms at parting?—the cars moved one by one till the last, in which he was seated, sprang forward with a jerk; and though she was quite blind, he saw her handkerchief waving till all had vanished, and he would have given the world to ...

— Bohemian Days - Three American Tales • Geo. Alfred Townsend

... each other; musicians to speak of the brilliancy of sounds, and the light and shade of a concerto; and painters of the harmony of colours, and the tone of a picture. Thus it was not quite so absurd, as was imagined, when the blind man asked if the colour scarlet was like the sound of a trumpet. As the coincidence or opposition of these ocular spectra, (or colours which remain in the eye after having for some time contemplated a luminous object) are more easily and more accurately ascertained, now ...

— The Botanic Garden. Part II. - Containing The Loves of the Plants. A Poem. - With Philosophical Notes. • Erasmus Darwin

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