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Meaning of blind

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

blind

Pronunciation:/blaɪnd/

noun

Definitions

  1. A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.

  2. A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.

  3. Any device intended to conceal or hide.

    Example: a duck blind

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

verb

Definitions

  1. To make temporarily or permanently blind.

    Example: Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?

  2. To curse.

  3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.

  4. 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.

adjective

Definitions

  1. (of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

    Antonyms:seeingsighted
  2. (of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

  3. Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.

    Example: Authors are blind to their own defects.

  4. Of a place, having little or no visibility.

    Example: a blind corner

adverb

Definitions

  1. Without seeing; unseeingly.

  2. Absolutely, totally.

    Example: to swear blind

  3. (three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.