blind Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
    • he spent hours reading to the blind
  2. noun a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
    • he waited impatiently in the blind
  3. noun a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
    screen.
    • they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet
  4. noun something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
    subterfuge.
    • he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge
    • the holding company was just a blind
  5. verb render unable to see
  6. verb make blind by putting the eyes out
    • The criminals were punished and blinded
  7. verb make dim by comparison or conceal
    dim.
  8. adjective unable to see
    unsighted.
    • a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision"--Kenneth Jernigan
  9. adjective satellite unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
    • blind to a lover's faults
    • blind to the consequences of their actions
  10. adjective satellite not based on reason or evidence
    unreasoning.
    • blind hatred
    • blind faith
    • unreasoning panic

WordNet

Blind adjective
Etymology
AS.; akin to D., G., OS., Sw., & Dan. blind, Icel. blindr, Goth. blinds; of uncertain origin.
Definitions
  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. Shak.
  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. Milton.
  3. Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
    This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation. Jay.
  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. Milton.
  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 transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Blinded; present participle & verbal noun Blinding
Definitions
  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. South.
  2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
    Her beauty all the rest did blind. P. Fletcher.
  3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.
    Such darkness blinds the sky. Dryden.
    The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. Stillingfleet.
  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 noun
Definitions
  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.
Blind, Blinde noun (Also<
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Definitions
  1. See Blende.

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