blinding
/ˈblaɪndɪŋ/ · verb
Meaning
- To make temporarily or permanently blind.
- 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.
- The act of causing blindness.
- A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface.
- A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.
- Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
- Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.
- Brilliant; marvellous.
- To an extreme degree; blindingly.
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