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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blinding" Quotes from Famous Books

... reached the nearest of the factories he heard the exhaust of its engines long before he could see the building, so blinding was the drift. Here he struck inland from the river, and, skirting the edges of the town, made his way by unfrequented streets and alleys, bearing in the general direction of upper Main Street, to find himself at last, almost exhausted, in the alley behind the Pike Mansion. There he paused, leaning ...

— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington

... circle with its pompous glitter the outer moat. All went very well. The yashiki walls bordering Tayasumura were slipping by. Then the steadily accumulating clouds poured forth their contents. It was a downpour, blinding in effect. The rokushaku of the Kurokwagumi—stout and tall palanquin bearers, "six footers"—floundered and staggered in the mud. The heavy palanquin came to the ground. Great was the rage of the princess at this unseemly precedent for such an occasion. ...

— Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House) - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville

... mystery-lights over the Arctic pole Jan would have been homesick; his soul would have withered and died in anything but this wondrous land which he knew, with its billion dazzling stars by night and its eye-blinding brilliancy by day. For Jan, in a way, was fortunate. He had in him an infinitesimal measure of the Cree, which made him understand what the winds sometimes whispered in the pine-tops; and a part of him ...

— Back to God's Country and Other Stories • James Oliver Curwood

... eager eyes, unheeding all else. She never thought to look behind her. She had no idea that a mass of flames had suddenly come rushing up the stairway behind her. She was conscious of an overpowering heat and a rush of blinding smoke that caused her to stagger back gasping for breath; but it was only as she actually felt the hot breath of the flames upon her cheek, and saw that the whole house had suddenly become involved in the universal destruction, that she knew what had befallen ...

— The Sign Of The Red Cross • Evelyn Everett-Green

... Newt—his neck stiffened suddenly. Newt, whom his mother used always to be talking about, and whose name he had not heard now for so long that he had almost forgotten it. Skeeter Newson—Newt—"The Lewis Woman." He saw it all in a blinding flash, and in that awful moment of realization he passed out of his childhood ...

— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice

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