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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BLINDING, ppr. Depriving of sight,or of understanding; obscuring.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the process of covering a newly made road etc. with grit to fill cracks. 2 such grit.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. --South. 2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. Her beauty all the rest did blind. --P. Fletcher. 3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive. Such darkness blinds the sky. --Dryden. The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. --Stillingfleet. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Blinding Blind"ing, a. Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Blinding Blind"ing, n. A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. A blinding light is extremely bright. The doctor worked busily beneath the blinding lights of the delivery room. = dazzling ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. You use blinding to emphasize that something is very obvious. The miseries I went through made me suddenly realise with a blinding flash what life was all about. ADJ: ADJ n [emphasis] • blindingly It is so blindingly obvious that defence must be the responsibility of the state. ADV: ADV adj/adv 3. Blinding pain is very strong pain. There was a pain then, a quick, blinding agony that jumped along Danlo's spine. ADJ: usu ADJ n

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

blind'-ing.

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Moby Thesaurus

ablepsia, absolute, amaurosis, bedazzling, benightedness, bleeding, blessed, blind side, blind spot, blindfolding, blindness, blinking, blooming, blurring the eyes, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, cat-and-doggish, cataract, cecity, confounded, crude, darkness, dazzling, depriving of sight, dim-sightedness, doggone, downright, drippy, driving, drizzling, drizzly, drop serene, drumming, economic blindness, effulgent, ever-during dark, excecation, execrable, eyelessness, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashy, flaunting, fulgent, fulgid, garish, gaudy, glaring, glary, glaucoma, gross, gutta serena, hoodwinking, infernal, lack of vision, loud, lurid, making blind, misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, niphablepsia, obscuring, outright, overbright, partial blindness, pelting, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, pouring, psychic blindness, rainy, rank, raw, reduced sight, refulgent, resplendent, screaming, showery, shrieking, sightless eyes, sightlessness, snow blindness, soul-blindness, spiritual blindness, splendent, splendid, splendorous, stone-blindness, streaming, total blindness, trachoma, unenlightenment, unmitigated, unseeingness, vivid