'Blinding' definitions:
Definition of 'blinding'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Blinding'
From: GCIDE
- Blinding \Blind"ing\, a. Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Blinding'
From: GCIDE
- Blinding \Blind"ing\, n. A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Blinding'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. [1913 Webster]
- Her beauty all the rest did blind. --P. Fletcher. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive. [1913 Webster]
- Such darkness blinds the sky. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. --Stillingfleet. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'blinding'
From: 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
Words containing 'Blinding'
- Blind,
- Blinde,
- Blinded,
- Blindly,
- Blindness,
- blind to,
- A blind boil,
- Blind alley,
- Blind axle,
- Blind beetle,
- Blind buckler,
- Blind cat,
- Blind coal,
- Blind door,
- Blind flange,
- Blind gut,
- Blind level,
- Blind nettle,
- Blind piles,
- Blind rat,
- Blind reader,
- Blind shell,
- Blind side,
- Blind snake,
- Blind spot,
- Blind tooling,
- Blind wall,
- Blind window,
- Color blindness,
- Day blindness,
- Moon blindness,
- Night blindness,
- Psychical blindness,
- Red blindness,
- Text blindness,
- Venetian blind,
- Window blind,
- Word blindness,
- blind bend,
- blind blocking,
- blind corner,
- blind curve,
- blind date,
- blind drunk,
- blind eel,
- blind faith,
- blind flying,
- blind gentian,
- blind impulse,
- blind landing,
- blind person,
- blind staggers,
- blind stitching,
- blind trust,
- color blind,
- colour blindness,
- double blind,
- figural blindness,
- fly blind,
- legal blindness,
- river blindness,
- roller blind,
- Blind man's buff,
- Color-blind,
- Hoodman-blind,
- Sand-blind,
- Snow-blind,
- Snow-blindness,
- Star-blind,
- Stock-blind,
- Stone-blind,
- blue-blind,
- blue-blindness,
- colour-blind,
- green-blind,
- green-blindness,
- near-blind,
- red-blind,
- red-blindness,
- snow-blinded,
- turn a blind eye,
- western blind snake,
- word-blind,
- yellow-blindness,
- color-blind person,
- double-blind experiment,
- double-blind procedure,
- double-blind study,
- red-green color blindness,
- red-green colour blindness,
- yellow-blue color blindness