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[Blind]

Someone who's blind can't see. People who are blind can often get around easily with the aid of a cane and sometimes a service dog.

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Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.

Noun
something that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"

Noun
a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); "he waited impatiently in the blind"

Noun
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"

Noun
people who have severe visual impairments; "he spent hours reading to the blind"

Verb
make dim by comparison or conceal

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Verb
make blind by putting the eyes out; "The criminals were punished and blinded"

Verb
render unable to see

Adjective S.
unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; "blind to a lover''s faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions"

Adjective S.
not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic"

Adjective
unable to see

a.
Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.

a.
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.

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Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.

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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.

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Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.

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Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.

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Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.

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Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.

v. t.
To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.

v. t.
To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.

v. t.
To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.

v. t.
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.

n.
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.

n.
Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.

n.
A blindage. See Blindage.

n.
A halting place.

n.
Alt. of Blinde

Blind

Blind , a. [AS.; akin to D., G., OS., Sw., & Dan. blind, Icel. blindr, Goth. blinds; of uncertain origin.] 1. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
2. 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.
But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall.
3. Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation.
4. 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. Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
The blind mazes of this tangled wood.
6. Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut. 7. Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing. 8. (Hort.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. Blind alley, an alley closed at one end; a cul-de-sac. -- Blind axle, an axle which turns but does not communicate motion. Knight. -- Blind beetle, one of the insects apt to fly against people, esp. at night. -- Blind cat (Zo'94l.), a species of catfish (Gronias nigrolabris), nearly destitute of eyes, living in caverns in Pennsylvania. -- Blind coal, coal that burns without flame; anthracite coal. Simmonds. -- Blind door, Blind window, an imitation of a door or window, without an opening for passage or light. See Blank door or window, under Blank, a. -- Blind level (Mining), a level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted siphon. Knight. -- Blind nettle (Bot.), dead nettle. See Dead nettle, under Dead. -- Blind shell (Gunnery), a shell containing no charge, or one that does not explode. -- Blind side, the side which is most easily assailed; a weak or unguarded side; the side on which one is least able or disposed to see danger. Swift. -- Blind snake (Zo'94l.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopid'91, with rudimentary eyes. -- Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light. -- Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also blank tooling, and blind blocking. -- Blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall.

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.
2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
Her beauty all the rest did blind.
3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.
Such darkness blinds the sky.
The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.
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.

Blind

Blind , n. 1. 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. 2. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge. 3. [Cf. F. blindes, p., fr. G. blende, fr. blenden to blind, fr. blind blind.] (Mil.) A blindage. See Blindage. 4. A halting place. [Obs.] Dryden.

Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.

To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.

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.

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Usage Examples

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.

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Other Usage Examples

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.