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Blind

adjective

Unable to see. Synonym: unsighted.

Unable or unwilling to perceive or understand. "Blind to the consequences of their actions"

Not based on reason or evidence. Synonym: unreasoning. "Blind faith" , "Unreasoning panic"

noun

People who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group.

A hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters).

A protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight. Synonym: screen.

Something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity. Synonym: subterfuge. "The holding company was just a blind"

verb

(past & past part. blinded; pres. part. blinding)

Render unable to see.

Make blind by putting the eyes out.

Make dim by comparison or conceal. Synonym: dim.

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"Blind" Quotes from Famous Books

... attendant upon civilization. Upon the sky should blaze no more the red riot of anarchy and barbarism. Upon the summit of the noble mountain overtopping this happy valley there should sit no more the grinning figure of malevolent and unrestrained vice, but the pure form of the blind Goddess of Justice, holding ever aloft over this happy land the unfaltering sword and the unwavering scales, so that all might look thereon, the rightdoers in smiling security, the wrong-doing in terror of their deeds. This was ...

— Heart's Desire • Emerson Hough

... his hands touched the rock near their camping-place, and he thence groped his way on; for having so often traversed the cavern in the dark, he found it as easily as a blind man would have done. ...

— From Powder Monkey to Admiral - A Story of Naval Adventure • W.H.G. Kingston

... never get on with a big pair. You stumbled about with these, like a blind chicken, before I curved off the ends. No, you must have a pair to fit exactly, and you must practice every chance you can get, until the twentieth comes. My little Gretel shall win ...

— Hans Brinker - or The Silver Skates • Mary Mapes Dodge

... not go about this in a hole-in-a-corner way in a back street. They did not let the "cash" girl feel her artistic effort was only a blind to help her help others. They held a ...

— With the French in France and Salonika • Richard Harding Davis

... of the fire;" "To climb a tree to catch a fish" is to talk much to no purpose; "A superficial scholar is a sheep dressed in a tiger's skin;" "A cuckoo in a magpie's nest," equivalent to saying, "he is enjoying another's labor without compensation;" "If the blind lead the blind they will both fall into the pit;" "A fair wind raises no storm;" "Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man is never satisfied;" "The body may be healed, but the mind is incurable;" "He seeks the ass, ...

— Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 • Barkham Burroughs

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