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blinding
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blinding \Blind"ing\, n. A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind , v. t., 4.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a throbbing/pounding/blinding headache (= a very bad headache ) ▪ He had a throbbing headache, behind his nose and his eyes. blinding/dazzling (= extremely bright ) ▪ The white buildings reflected a blinding light. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Blinding can refer to: The act of making someone blind Blinding (punishment) Metaphorical and extended uses of same: see blindness#Metaphorical uses The grammatically incorrect use of installing blinds Blinding (cryptography) , a technique by which an agent ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Very bright (as if to cause blindness). 2 Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding. 3 (lb en UK slang) brilliant; marvellous. adv. (context neologism English) To an extreme degree; blindingly. n. 1 The act of causing blindness. ...
Usage examples of blinding.
Harsh, blinding, actinic, the lights sparked on before they reached the fence.
Looking at it rising across the valley, the straight high walls and towers adazzle in the blinding light, it seemed less a city than an enormous jewel: a monstrous ornament carved of whitest ivory and nestled against the black surrounding mountains, or a colossal milk-coloured moonstone set upon the dusty green of the valley to shimmer gently in the heat haze of a blistering summer day.
Frigid water whipped in a convection wind, then streamed from their bodies, running from their noses, blinding their eyes with the algid wind.
He got up slowly, as ordered, and Angelina squinted into the blinding sun.
The general pathos of the idea disabled the criticism of the audience, composed of the authoress and the reader, blinding perhaps both to not a little that was neither brilliant nor poetic.
Bunting always visioned The Avenger as a black shadow in the centre a bright blinding light--but the shadow had no form or definite substance.
He raised his beam, blinding both of them, and Beel covered his face with his arms and moved further behind Syra.
The day I knew you loved me we had lain Deep in Coill Doraca down by Gleann na Scath Unknown to each other till suddenly I saw You in the shadow, knew oppressive pain Stopping my heart, and there you did remain In dreadful beauty fair without a flaw, Blinding the eyes that yet could not withdraw Till wiMore between us drove the wind and rain.
Brilliant, dewless mornings, blinding middays, afternoons held breathless in the remorseless torrent of light.
Even though the workmen were separated from the river by the fence, the dilos could spit right through it, delivering their blinding poison.
Flares ripped through the roiling photosphere, followed by a blinding armada of ellipsoid faeros ships that collided with a thousand diamond-hulled warglobes in the sea of flames.
Corello had never seen anything like it: Hundreds of reporters and curious civilians rushed at Flyte the instant they saw him, pulling and tugging at the professor, shoving microphones in his face, blinding him with batteries of camera lights, and frantically shouting questions.
Way too large and not nearly furry enough to be Gizmo, she awoke with a start, her lids lifting wide to the blinding shower of afternoon light.
And so are we familiar enough with the surfaces of these planets to know why Gola should appear as a haven to their inhabitants who see in our cloud-enclosed mantle a sweet release from the blasting heat and blinding glare of the great sun.
She crouched, opening her arms with a blinding smile of welcome, and Hipper catapulted from the floor into her embrace.