| Definitions of 'blind' |
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1. (noun) blind
people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
"he spent hours reading to the blind"
2. (noun) blind
a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
"he waited impatiently in the blind"
3. (noun) blind, screen
a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
"they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"
4. (adj) subterfuge, blind
something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
"he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind"
5. (adj) blind, unsighted
unable to see
"a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision"--Kenneth Jernigan
6. (adj) blind
unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
"blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions"
7. (verb) blind, unreasoning
not based on reason or evidence
"blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic"
8. (verb) blind
render unable to see
9. (verb) blind
make blind by putting the eyes out
"The criminals were punished and blinded"
10. (verb) blind, dim
make dim by comparison or conceal
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| Definitions of 'blind' |
Webster 1913 Dictionary |
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1. (adj) blind
destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight
2. (adj) blind
not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects
3. (adj) blind
undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate
4. (adj) blind
having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch
5. (adj) blind
involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced
6. (adj) blind
having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut
7. (adj) blind
unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing
8. (adj) blind
abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers
9. (noun) blind
something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse
10. (noun) blind
something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge
11. (noun) blind
a blindage. See Blindage
12. (noun) blind
a halting place
13. (noun) blind
alt. of Blinde
14. (verb) blind
to make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment
15. (verb) blind
to deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle
16. (verb) blind
to darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive
17. (verb) blind
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
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