Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of making blind.
- noun A layer of sand and fine gravel laid over a road which has been recently paved, to fill the interstices between the stones.
- Making blind; depriving of sight or of understanding: as, a blinding storm of rain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring.
- noun A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See
blind , v. t., 4.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
blind . - adjective Very
bright (as if to cause blindness). - adjective UK, slang
brilliant ;marvellous - adverb neologism To an
extreme degree;blindingly . - noun The act of causing
blindness - noun A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface
- noun A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shining intensely
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Examples
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I don't want to use the term blinding light, but epiphany would be an appropriate term.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Sometimes she went out clubbing with the other toms, had what she called a blinding night and did not expect him to question her right to do this.
two women Cole, Martina 1999
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HARE: Well, this is always the trick, and this is why it's so important to do this in a scientifically rigorous fashion, with placebos and with what we call blinding.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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There does seem to be an impression around that a few years ago some of us in the Bank of Canada were struck down on the road to inflation by a blinding light -- the word "blinding" is sometimes emphasized -- and experienced a sudden conversion to a new farout religion called monetarism.
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Ziva teasing Tony on NCIS, who's dressed in blinding white disco duds as Saturday Night Fever's Tony Manero. ...
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Training fails to adress the issue too-yet needs to to stop the waste of public money and resources on officers who wont work Friday and Saturday nights-if they cant take a bit of Fing and blinding from the Training Sgt how are they going to cope with someone trying to gouge their eyes out in a pub fight?
Make the lie big, make it simple and keep saying it. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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The rain, which had started at some point during my talk, was coming down in blinding sheets now, rendering the campus a muddy pit as we made our mad dash for the car.
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The rain, which had started at some point during my talk, was coming down in blinding sheets now, rendering the campus a muddy pit as we made our mad dash for the car.
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If fact, so blinding is their hate for Bush, nutty libs will block progress (fair tax, Iraq war for example) just so they can blame Bush for failures they caused.
Think Progress » Progressive Unity on Iraq: Redeployment Must Begin Immediately 2006
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But then, we had to walk to and from school in blinding snow uphill ...
August 2004 2004
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