2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a
guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . .
a much greater. --South.
2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult
for and painful to to dazzle.
Her beauty all the rest did blind. --P. Fletcher.
3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to
conceal; to deceive.
Such darkness blinds the sky. --Dryden.
The state of the controversy between us he
endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.
--Stillingfleet.
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
blinded
adj : deprived of sight
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