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blind English

Meaning blind meaning

What does blind mean?
Definitions in simple English

blind Adjective

— If someone or something is blind, then it cannot see. — If someone or something is blind, then they cannot see the truth about something.

blind Verb

— To make temporarily or permanently blind. The light was so bright that for a moment he was blinded. Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?

blind Noun

— A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass. — Any device intended to conceal or hide; as, a duck blind. — In poker a forced bet. The player was in the big blind. — An 1800s baseball term meaning no score.

blind Adverb

— Without seeing; unseeingly. — In three card brag, without looking at the cards dealt.

blind

— adjective unable to see 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 — noun people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group he spent hours reading to the blind — adjective unable or unwilling to perceive or understand blind to a lover's faults blind to the consequences of their actions — adjective (= unreasoning) not based on reason or evidence blind hatred blind faith unreasoning panic — verb render unable to see — verb make blind by putting the eyes out The criminals were punished and blinded — noun a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet — noun a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters) he waited impatiently in the blind — verb (= dim) make dim by comparison or conceal — noun (= subterfuge) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge the holding company was just a blind

Synonyms blind synonyms

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blind English » English

sightless make blind screen curtain blindness spoil eyeless dazzle window blind unsighted shade unreasoning subterfuge sightless person shutter reckless hide blind person blind man blank bad unseeing unknowing trick tight solid pretext excuse dim careless become blind wry without sight without knowing wholehearted warp visionless unsurprised unresponsive unheeding undiscouraged undeterred uncritical unconcerned uncomprehending typhlosis tortuous sunshade strike blind stop plate

Topics blind topics

What do people use blind to talk about?
Person Healthy Disabled

Blind
Person Sense, perceive

See
Language and thought Think Mind

Stupid
Language and thought Communication Say Ask

Hide your thoughts
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Hunt
Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Window
Person Healthy Disabled

Poor eyesight
Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Ignore
Language and thought Think Opinion Believe

Trust
States Quality Light

Color

  • What words describe someone who cannot see color?
    color-blind

Conjugation blind conjugation

How do you conjugate blind?

blind · verb

Examples blind examples

How do I use blind in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Without his glasses, he is as blind as a bat.
The old man is blind in one eye.
The dog is blind in one eye.
He went blind.
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
I'm blind.
I'm not blind.
Are you truly blind?
Not only was Tom born nearly blind in one eye, but at his advanced age he can no longer see all that well out of the other one either.
Don't forget that Tom is blind.
I may be blind, but I'm not deaf.
There's a reason they say love is blind.
Tom cannot see you because he is blind.
Can you explain what colors are like to a blind person?
They say love is blind.
Blind people sometimes develop a compensatory ability to sense the proximity of objects around them.
There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt.
Helen Keller was blind, deaf and dumb.
Helen Keller was deaf and blind.
We parents sometimes become blind in loving our children too much.
You must be blind as a bat if you couldn't see it.
The blind men walked slowly.
Would you mind drawing down the blind?
Jane is fat and rude, and smokes too much. However, Ken thinks she's lovely and charming. That's why they say love is blind.
I got blind drunk last night - so drunk I don't even know how I got home.
I am blind in the right eye.
He went blind from the accident.
I'm color-blind.
Sadako watched the sun lowering in the west and became blind.
He went blind in the accident.

Movie subtitles

The Azeri Government is paid handsomely to turn a blind eye to all activities.
The blind organist strikes up the wedding march.
The snow made her blind.
Only his daughter, blind, has survived.
As she was blind, he was not afraid she could see his face.
I am blind but I know when you are looking at me.
You're the blind one. They are sufficiently educated to hide what they really think.
Of course, Inspector if you listen to a color-blind man!
Is this the time, or I am blind?
A blind alley wherever we go.
He's snow-blind, that's what he is.
You were blind.
Am I blind?
Wash his eyes everyday or he'll become blind.
Alms for the Blind.
I'm colour-blind.
Sister, the young man is blind.
What? We'll each take a blind tonight, you take Gary in with you.
If you wait here a few minutes, you can lead him out, blind.
As a result, while in the infirmary he discovered that his vocal chords had been paralysed, and that his right eye was almost completely blind.
But for other shots, such as the close shots of the head unwrapping, this was not possible, and the actor had to work blind.
Take your tunics off. Don't touch that blind till you're in position.
You must please excuse me, but I am blind.
Oh, he's blind.
Stuff like that is easy to get because the screws turn a blind eye to those kind of things.
We are blind to the quiet courage and the abiding strength of those we see every day.
Aw, you poor blind idiot!
Why, a blind man can see what she is.
I'd rather be deaf than blind, wouldn't you?
I wouldn't believe both of you were so blind not to see a good business.
Do you think I'm blind?
I may be a simple man. But I am not blind.
Professor. You're deaf, dumb and blind.
Those men must all be blind.
That was a blind.
I'm not blind.
What's the point of covering a blind man's eyes, fool?

News and current affairs

But the scale of this corruption should not blind us to the problem of public sector accounting, where many deceitful things are also being done.
Globalization must not be allowed to blind us.
In both cases, it takes a lot of blind faith to go from one to the other.
While this is a reasonable demand, the rest of the Middle East - and, indeed, much of the world, including Europe - regard the root cause of the conflict as Israeli intransigence and arrogance, together with America's blind support for it.
But turning a blind eye is shortsighted, for America and for the Saudis.
Reassuring Iraq's Sunnis that they have a place in the new Iraq will also reassure neighboring Sunni governments, which have mostly turned a blind eye to the support for the insurgency that has come from their lands.
Moreover, new international norms had come to the fore: external powers that previously turned a blind eye to coups, military dictatorships, and repression now rallied around democracy and human rights.
Not blind faith in technology.
The stunning opacity of solvency ratios encouraged regulators to turn a blind eye to banks' excessive risk-taking.
Hubris creates blind spots.
Followed through to its end, he argued, it would mean that all were blind.
This realization does not mean that Europe should turn a blind eye to the nature of Lukashenko's regime.
But perhaps it is such certainty in their good intentions that makes them blind to the damage that they are doing.
MONTREAL - In a car, blind spots are the areas of the road that the rearview and side-view mirrors do not show.
But how can we blame that legacy while turning a blind eye to a kind of colonialism against women in these same countries' private homes and public institutions?
The nature of their attraction has to do with two strains in American thought to which the US left and media establishment are truly blind.
This superficial understanding of populism makes the French presidential election an ominous symptom of Europe's blind leadership.
Blind in Gaza, blind in Jerusalem.
Panic about terrorism and climate change doesn't blind us entirely to other problems facing the planet, but our fear does distort the lens through which we see the big picture.
Investors aren't blind.
One common source of businesses' blind spots is judgment bias.

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