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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

... blinding you, sir," he said bluntly. "You will not find it an easy thing to marry your daughter; and, acting in your interest throughout, I have put you in a position from which you cannot draw back; for I am fond of Francoise, she is my ward. Now—Petit-Claud knows everything! ...

— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac

... and Maddy read with blinding tears that which for a moment increased her pain and sent to her bleeding heart an added pang of disappointment, or a sense of wrong done to her, she could not tell which. Dr. Holbrook was to be married the same day with Lucy, and ...

— Aikenside • Mary J. Holmes

... hours the next day we rode on under a blinding sunlight, a cloudless sky, over dreary, rolling, dusty plains, where the only relief from dead grasses was the gray sage-brush and cactus, from the shelter of which, now and again, a warning rattle arose or a more timid ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various

... into actual enthusiasm over a newspaper; a single paragraph from the pen one of his own way of thinking sufficing to kindle his feelings into a glow of patriotism, while a civil word of dissent would seem to chill his sympathies for his kind; strong disapprobation blinding his perceptions to any good possible in those differing from his established standard. Now it was not to be expected that the young Lucy's circle would be modelled according to such restrictions; she loved her kind old father ...

— Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 - Volume 23, Number 3 • Various

... issue was to be blurred in the blinding glare of the King's lunacy. The causes of the malady of February 1801 were partly physical, partly mental. While still agitated by the dismissal of his trusted Minister, the King, two days later, went to church on the day appointed for the National ...

— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose

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