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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

... because of her persistence and my sickness, I suffered her to lead me where she would, though more than once I tripped and should have fallen but for her ready arm. Presently turning out of the road we came to a meadow and here, half-blinded by the pain of my head and scarcely able to drag one foot after the other, I earnestly besought her to leave me, storm or no storm; to which she merely bade me not to be a fool, with the further assurance that she would leave me when she wished and ...

— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol

... the men trying so earnestly to save the gallivat knew nothing of what had happened to the grab. They were aware that a gallivat had been cut loose and was standing out to sea; but the glare of the fire blinded them to all that was happening beyond a narrow circle, and as yet they had had no information from shore of what was actually occurring. When they did learn that two vessels were on their way to the sea, they would no doubt set out to recapture the fugitives ...

— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang

... last succeeded in raising her to her feet, and guiding her, half-blinded as she seemed, to the portal of the Hotel de Terreforte—an archway leading into a courtyard. It was by great good fortune that the very first person who stood within it was old Andrew of the Cleugh, who despised all French ...

— Two Penniless Princesses • Charlotte M. Yonge

... perfection, shall I speak of Naples or Rome? Alas! At the contemplation of such misery, in vain you constrain your lips to smile; they pout, and the uncalled tears stream over your face. Pity, in these most unhappy countries, blinded with weeping and hoarse with vain supplication, when she has no more voice to cry out to heaven, flies thither, and, kneeling before the throne of God, with outstretched hand, and proffering no word, begs that ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 • Various

... I am positively blinded with the sight of gold. I'd seen every kind of decoration and furniture, I thought... but solid ...

— Prince Hagen • Upton Sinclair

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