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Blinding \Blind"ing\, a.
Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of
understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.
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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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Blinding \Blind"ing\, n.
A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved
road. See {Blind}, v. t., 4.
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