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adjective

unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.

unwilling or unable to perceive or understand: They were blind to their children's faults. He was blind to all arguments.

not characterized or determined by reason or control: blind tenacity; blind chance.

not having or based on reason or intelligence; absolute and unquestioning: She had blind faith in his fidelity.

lacking all consciousness or awareness: a blind stupor.

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drunk.

hard to see or understand: blind reasoning.

hidden from immediate view, especially from oncoming motorists: a blind corner.

of concealed or undisclosed identity; sponsored anonymously: a blind ad signed only with a box number.

10.

having no outlets; closed at one end: a blind passage; a blind mountain pass.

11.

Architecture. (of an archway, arcade, etc.) having no windows, passageways, or the like.

12.

dense enough to form a screen: a blind hedge of privet.

13.

done without seeing; by instruments alone: blind flying.

14.

made without some prior knowledge: a blind purchase; a blind lead in a card game.

15.

of or pertaining to an experimental design that prevents investigators or subjects from knowing the hypotheses or conditions being tested.

16.

of, pertaining to, or for blind persons.

17.

Bookbinding. (of a design, title, or the like) impressed into the cover or spine of a book by a die without ink or foil.

18.

Cookery. (of pastry shells) baked or fried without the filling.

19.

(of a rivet or other fastener) made so that the end inserted, though inaccessible, can be headed or spread.

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verb (used with object)

20.

to make sightless permanently, temporarily, or momentarily, as by injuring, dazzling, bandaging the eyes, etc.: The explosion blinded him. We were blinded by the bright lights.

21.

to make obscure or dark: The room was blinded by heavy curtains.

22.

to deprive of discernment, reason, or judgment: a resentment that blinds his good sense.

23.

to outshine; eclipse: a radiance that doth blind the sun.

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noun

24.

something that obstructs vision, as a blinker for a horse.

25.

a window covering having horizontal or vertical slats that can be drawn out of the way, often with the angle of the slats adjustable to admit varying amounts of light.

26.

Venetian blind.

27.

Chiefly Midland U.S. and British. window shade.

28.

a lightly built structure of brush or other growths, especially one in which hunters conceal themselves: a duck blind.

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29.

an activity, organization, or the like for concealing or masking action or purpose; subterfuge: The store was just a blind for their gambling operation.

30.

a decoy.

31.

Slang. a bout of excessive drinking; drunken spree.

32.

Poker. a compulsory bet made without prior knowledge of one's hand.

33.

(used with a plural verb

) persons who lack the sense of sight (usually preceded by the): The blind are said to have an acute sense of hearing.

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adverb

34.

into a stupor; to the degree at which consciousness is lost: He drank himself blind.

35.

without the ability to see clearly; lacking visibility; blindly: They were driving blind through the snowstorm.

36.

without guidance or forethought: They were working blind and couldn't anticipate the effects of their actions.

37.

to an extreme or absolute degree; completely: The confidence men cheated her blind.

Origin:
before 1000; (adj.) Middle English blind, Old English; cognate with Gothic blinds, Old Norse blindr, German, Dutch blind (< Germanic *blindaz, perhaps akin to blend; original sense uncertain); (v.) Middle English blinden, derivative of the adj.

Related forms

blind·ing·ly, adverb

blind·ness, noun

half-blind, adjective

half-blind·ly, adverb

half-blind·ness, noun

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qua·si-blind, adjective

qua·si-blind·ly, adverb

self-blind·ed, adjective

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Synonyms
1. Blind, stone-blind, purblind mean unable to see. Blind means unable to see with the physical eyes. Stone-blind emphasizes complete blindness. Purblind refers to weakened vision, literally or figuratively. 4. irrational, uncritical, rash, thoughtless, unreasoning. 8. concealed. 25. See curtain. 28. hiding place, ambush.

Antonyms
1. seeing. 2. receptive. 4. rational.

Regional variation note
27. See window shade.

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Example Sentences

The man, a doctor left blind by two successive strokes, refused to take part in the experiment.

Blind professors and students find them to be something else: inaccessible.

Both sighted and blind subjects gave similar results.

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The man, a doctor left blind by two successive strokes, refused to take part in the experiment.

Blind professors and students find them to be something else: inaccessible.

Both sighted and blind subjects gave similar results.

Cesar teaches an owner how her nervous energy is contributing to the confusion of her blind pup.

People blind since birth were able to distinguish individual fast touches to their fingertips better than were sighted people or.

In an innovative program, prison inmates are raising puppies to be guide dogs for the blind.

We invited chocolate amateurs and professionals to rate two dozen plain bittersweet and semisweet chocolates in a blind tasting.

Thanks to an ingenious genetic hack, blind mice have seen the light.

Reading machines for blind people are now reaching more individuals who need them as both prices and sizes continue to shrink.

The blind warning the blind about a danger that isn't there.

But the law has increasingly been turning a blind eye to the business.

From the looks of it, the blind mole rat doesn¿t have a lot going for it.

Without treatment, she would have grown completely blind.

Bikers should ride the loop clockwise to avoid blind encounters with other trail users.

The iconic and instantly recognizable white stick carried by the blind could soon be replaced.

In an ideal world, the review process should be double blind so that people dont get published based on name alone.

Businesses could benefit if they turned a blind eye to queue jumping.

For the first time these sluggish, nearly blind creatures are photographed in their frigid habitat.

Recent research has confirmed that in blind subjects who use echolocation to navigate, it is the visual part of the.

The vents fuel strange underwater ecosystems inhabited by giant worms, blind shrimp and sulfur-eating bacteria.

Braille music software allows blind musicians and their instructors to transcribe music and keep tempo with the rest of the band.

Leahy is blind in his right eye, and the sight in his left eye is diminished because of damage to his brain's right frontal lobe.

It is not catchy, and nobody pays a blind bit of notice.

Film footage showed the huge, deep-sea squid use its glowing arms to blind and stun its prey.

Spitting cobras use quick reaction and anticipation to attempt to blind targets with venom.

They'll blow you or freeze you or blind you into submission.

For years, technology companies and small software developers have created digital tools to aid the blind in everyday life.

So far, the houseguest who took me up on the emergency offer is still not blind.

MP s would not be permitted to hear evidence that could prejudice a subsequent trial, so their vote would in effect be blind.

He was also blind in one eye, something he tried to keep a secret.

Such patches are commonly used to test for blind spots or visual awareness.

Some would try to understand without negative comments, but some are culturally blind and narrow-minded.

In short, the idea is to blind pirates with light so they can't fire their weapons, let alone take a commercial ship hostage.

Also, you should not list the journal because doing so could undermine the double blind process.

The first to go are the eyes: half a million children become blind each year.

Both new species belong to a little-known group of known as thread snakes-also called worm snakes and slender blind snakes.

It connotes a blind search through data, an effort that tends to confuse real patterns with mere coincidences.

In blind people, parts of the brain that normally process sight are instead devoted to hearing.

The company now employs blind people to produce these extraordinary and functional brush items.

It would seem that his/her departmental leadership was either cowardly or blind.

Apparently blind justice is a concept that doesn't suit the senator.

Bliss cautions about accepting such stories on blind faith.

He is blind and developmentally disabled, and he has cerebral palsy.

But you took the time to approach this subject from the perspective of a rational outlook instead of a blind eye.

Scheifele has only worked with blind people who can echolocate, but he agrees that others could probably learn the skill.

Babies are blind and totally dependent on their mothers for two or three months.

It is clear that there is a lot of blind faith and innumeracy among the responders to this blog.

Live blind snakes in eastern screech owl nests: a novel commensalism.

Second, it's hard to type blind on a smartphone because the text entry surface and the screen are on the same plane.

Some species light up to confuse or blind attackers or to illuminate them so larger predators can attack.

Those in the study weren't entirely blind before the therapy.

In the book, humanity goes green, goes blind and then goes away.

Nudibranchs are blind to their own beauty, their tiny eyes discerning little more than light.

Still, some blind people can adjust their body to the cycle of night and day.

Not only does the technology alert drivers that a motorcycle might be in their blind spot or approaching an.

So right beneath you you're blind as a bat with this system.

There are none as blind as those who choose not to see.

If you're blind their names could be whispered to you through earplugs, thanks to voice-enabling software.

The blind can see, a one-armed woman can fold her shirts.

Ask a group of blind men to touch an elephant and one might declare its tail a snake, while another might call its tusk a spear.

The captured travelers were able to get the monster drunk, blind him, and escape.

For example the brain learns to rely more heavily on other senses when a person goes blind.

Nudibranchs are blind to their own beauty, their tiny eyes discerning little more than light and dark.

Evolutionists are deliberately blind to any other possible process.

Ruit's goal is to heal patients in poor countries who have gone blind from cataracts.

Let us search for origins, but don't let our preoccupation with origins blind us to the primacy of value.

Blind and hairless, joeys are no bigger than jelly beans.

Try some sciences that actually help mankind, not blind and deafen him to the truth.

Blind mole rats do have tiny eyes, but they are located beneath their skin and fur.

In the same way blind people have mental images of what is around them.

To think only in terms of genes is to be blind to the importance of social links for the human species.

Such beliefs are purely hypothetical, and therefore based on blind faith that prove nothing.

Throw your seeds with your eyes blind and you will grow something.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

blind (blaɪnd)

—*adj*
1.	a. unable to see; sightless
	b. (as collective noun; preceded by the): the blind
2.	(usually foll by to) unable or unwilling to understand or discern
3.	not based on evidence or determined by reason: blind hatred
4.	acting or performed without control or preparation
5.	done without being able to see, relying on instruments for information
6.	hidden from sight: a blind corner; a blind stitch
7.	closed at one end: a blind alley
8.	completely lacking awareness or consciousness: a blind stupor
9.	informal very drunk
10.	having no openings or outlets: a blind wall
11.	without having been seen beforehand: a blind purchase
12.	(of cultivated plants) having failed to produce flowers or fruits
13.	(intensifier): not a blind bit of notice
14.	turn a blind eye to disregard deliberately or pretend not to notice (something, esp an action of which one disapproves)

—*adv*
15.	without being able to see ahead or using only instruments: to drive blind; flying blind
16.	without adequate knowledge or information; carelessly: to buy a house blind
17.	(intensifier) (in the phrase blind drunk)
18.	bake blind to bake (the empty crust of a pie, pastry, etc) by half filling with dried peas, crusts of bread, etc, to keep it in shape

—vb
19.	to deprive of sight permanently or temporarily
20.	to deprive of good sense, reason, or judgment
21.	to darken; conceal
22.	(foll by with) to overwhelm by showing detailed knowledge: to blind somebody with science
23.	slang (Brit) (intr) to drive very fast
24.	slang (Brit) (intr) to curse (esp in the phrase effing and blinding)

—n
25.	(modifier) for or intended to help blind and partially sighted people: a blind school
26.	a shade for a window, usually on a roller
27.	any obstruction or hindrance to sight, light, or air
28.	a person, action, or thing that serves to deceive or conceal the truth
29.	a person who acts on behalf of someone who does not wish his identity or actions to be known
30.	old-fashioned, slang (Brit) Also called: blinder a drunken orgy; binge
31.	poker a stake put up by a player before he examines his cards
32.	chiefly (US), (Canadian) hunting Brit name: hide a screen of brush or undergrowth, in which hunters hide to shoot their quarry
33.	military a round or demolition charge that fails to explode

[Old English blind; related to Old Norse blindr, Old High German blint; Lettish blendu to see dimly; see blunder]

usage It is preferable to avoid using phrases such as the blind. Instead you should talk about blind and partially sighted people

'blindly

—*adv*

'blindness

—n

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

blind

O.E. blind "blind," also "dark, obscure, unintelligent," probably sharing with blend a P.Gmc. base *blandjan "to blind" (cf. Du., Ger. blind, O.N. blindr, Goth. blinds "blind"), perhaps also "to make cloudy, deceive," from PIE base *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see

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bleach); cf. Lith. blendzas "blind," blesti "to become dark." The original sense, not of "sightless," but of "confused," perhaps underlies such phrases as blind alley. Of aviators flying without instruments or without clear observation, from 1919. The verb is O.E. blendan, influenced in M.E. by the adj. The noun meaning "anything that obstructs sight" is from 1530s. Blindman's bluff is from 1580s.

"The twilight, or rather the hour between the time when one can no longer see to read and the lighting of the candles, is commonly called blindman's holiday." [Grose, 1796]

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

blind (blīnd)
adj.

Unable to see; without useful sight.
Having a maximal visual acuity of the better eye, after correction by refractive lenses, of one-tenth normal vision or less (20/200 or less on the Snellen test).
Of, relating to, or for sightless persons.
Closed at one end, as a tube or sac.

blind'ness n.

Slang Dictionary

blind(ed) definition

mod.
alcohol or drug intoxicated. : I guess she was blinded. She couldn't stand up.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Easton

Bible Dictionary

Blind definition

Blind beggars are frequently mentioned (Matt. 9:27; 12:22; 20:30; John 5:3). The blind are to be treated with compassion (Lev. 19:14; Deut. 27:18). Blindness was sometimes a punishment for disobedience (1 Sam. 11:2; Jer. 39:7), sometimes the effect of old age (Gen. 27:1; 1 Kings 14:4; 1 Sam. 4:15). Conquerors sometimes blinded their captives (2 Kings 25:7; 1 Sam. 11:2). Blindness denotes ignorance as to spiritual things (Isa. 6:10; 42:18, 19; Matt. 15:14; Eph. 4:18). The opening of the eyes of the blind is peculiar to the Messiah (Isa. 29:18). Elymas was smitten with blindness at Paul's word (Acts 13:11).

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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

blind

In addition to the idioms beginning with blind, also see fly blind; rob someone blind; turn a blind eye.

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