Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the eyes covered; hindered from seeing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having a blindfold placed over the eyes; -- done to prevent the wearer from seeing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
blindfold . - adjective Wearing a blindfold
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective wearing a blindfold
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Examples
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Underlying Gandhari’s resolve to remain blindfolded was a silent but a strong protest in opposition to the power games and of course the forced marriage, at once making her enforced blindness both physical and metaphorical.
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You see his technique of hooping "blind," i.e. blindfolded, which is how he taught himself most of what he knows.
the humphreys proxy 2007
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Sometimes the individuals have their own personal issues that are causing them to be selfish in their own actions and thus, they are "blindfolded" from others at times.
Small sustainability 2009
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The 'blindfolded' potter competition was thrilling.
Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites 2006
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He and Howells would work up a "skeleton" plot and have twelve authors each "write a story, using the same plot, 'blindfolded' as to what the others had written."
The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Mark Twain's Reconstruction | Blount Jr. 2001
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Hmmm. Perhaps the only truly "blindfolded" person present was the conductor, Christoph von Dohnanyi, whose reading of Strauss 'great score with the Vienna Philharmonic was ravishing.
Silliness and Subversion Taint the Salzburg Opera Festival 2001
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The "skeleton novelette" mentioned in the next letter refers to a plan concocted by Howells and Clemens, by which each of twelve authors was to write a story, using the same plot, "blindfolded" as to what the others had written.
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) Mark Twain 1872
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The "skeleton novelette" mentioned in the next letter refers to a plan concocted by Howells and Clemens, by which each of twelve authors was to write a story, using the same plot, "blindfolded" as to what the others had written.
Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872
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If any of the scholars were too small to take off and put on their own boots they were punished by being "blindfolded" and stood upon a cricket in the middle of the floor.
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I was struck in this email by strong words like "blindfolded" and "warped."
Brian McLaren EMC 2010
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