blind
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/blaɪnd/
English
Definitions
noun
- A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
- A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
- Any device intended to conceal or hide.“a duck blind”
- Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
verb
- To make temporarily or permanently blind.“Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?”
- To curse.
- To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
- To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
adjective
- (of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
- (of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
- Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.“Authors are blind to their own defects.”
- Of a place, having little or no visibility.“a blind corner”
adverb
- Without seeing; unseeingly.
- Absolutely, totally.“to swear blind”
- (three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.
Related words
Synonyms
rollsignsand-blindpurblindvisually impairedblindfoldedexcecatedim-sightedblindfoldstone-blindsightlesseyelessunseeingpixilatedtiddleystiffcrockedirrational