Blinded

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blind \Blind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blinded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Blinding}.]
     1. To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. "To
        blind the truth and me." --Tennyson.
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              A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a
              guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . .
              a much greater.                       --South.
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     2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult
        for and painful to; to dazzle.
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              Her beauty all the rest did blind.    --P. Fletcher.
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     3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to
        conceal; to deceive.
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              Such darkness blinds the sky.         --Dryden.
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              The state of the controversy between us he
              endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.
                                                    --Stillingfleet.
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     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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  blinded \blinded\ adj.
     deprived of one's sight; rendered blind.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  blinded
       adj : deprived of sight

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "blinded":
     bedazzled, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, darkened, dazed, dazzled,
     dim-sighted, excecate, hoodwinked, imperceptive, impercipient,
     insensible, mind-blind, myopic, nearsighted, nonunderstanding,
     obscured, purblind, shortsighted, snow-blind, snow-blinded,
     unapprehending, uncomprehending, undiscerning, unperceptive