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  • adjective temporarily blinded by exposure to light reflected from snow or ice

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Examples

  • "Not Sutherland of '92?" broke in the snow-blinded Minook man, groping feebly toward him.

    AT THE RAINBOW'S END 2010

  • At least you're not one of the snow-blinded travelers of yore, who relied on volcanic-stone cairns to keep from getting lost.

    Take Monday Off: Iceland Dennis K. Berman 2011

  • There was a hollow in it which my searching hands rather than my snow-blinded eyes discovered, and into that I pushed my way.

    Sorceress of the Witch World Norton, Andre 1968

  • He worked without complaint in a smother of dust and cattle fumes at temperatures ranging as high as 136 degrees; or, snow-blinded and frozen, he "rode line" for hours on end when the thermometer was fifty or more below zero.

    Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

  • "Not Sutherland of '92?" broke in the snow-blinded Minook man, groping feebly toward him.

    At the Rainbow's End 1901

  • "Not Sutherland of '92?" broke in the snow-blinded Minook man, groping feebly toward him.

    The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke Jack London 1896

  • The talk of the other snow-blinded men, sitting about or stretched with their feet to the fire, was lost on his ear.

    Heroes of the Middle West The French Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874

  • Harris and his wife Mary provided sojourn in their New Memphis home for snow-blinded travelers on the way to Colorado Springs.

    The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories 2010

  • It might feel nicely at home in Barcelona's Eixample district but with Colman's yellow walls paired with dark, dark wood, this Goodge Street newcomer comes across a bit screechy and chilly on a snow-blinded London lunchtime.

    Home 2010

  • "You want to be careful," her husband cautioned her; "getting snow-blinded isn't as much fun as you'd think.

    The Land of Promise D. Torbett

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