blind

/blaind/
Adjective
  1. not based on reason or evidence
    • blind hatred
    • blind faith
    • unreasoning panic
  2. unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
    • blind to a lover's faults
    • blind to the consequences of their actions
  3. 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
Verb
  1. make dim by comparison or conceal
  2. make blind by putting the eyes out
    • The criminals were punished and blinded
  3. render unable to see
Noun
  1. 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
  2. a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
    • they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet
  3. a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
    • he waited impatiently in the blind
  4. people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
    • he spent hours reading to the blind

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