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| Shopping | The largest selection of BLIND products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | blay'nd |
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| Rhymes | aligned, assigned, behind, and 38 more rhymes in aynd... |
| Meaning | Unable to see. |
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| Examples | "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 |
| Synonyms | unsighted |
| Contrary | sighted |
| Similar | blinded; blindfold, blindfolded; color-blind, colour-blind; dazzled; deuteranopic, green-blind; dim-sighted, near-blind, purblind, sand-blind, visually impaired, visually challenged; eyeless, sightless, unseeing; protanopic, red-blind; snow-blind, snow-blinded; stone-blind; tritanopic, blue-blind |
| Nouns | blindness |
| Adverbs | blindly |
| Meaning | Unable or unwilling to perceive or understand. |
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| Examples | "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions" |
| Similar to | unperceptive, unperceiving |
| Meaning | Not based on reason or evidence. |
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| Examples | "blind hatred"; "blind faith" |
| Synonyms | unreasoning |
| Similar to | irrational |
| Adverbs | blindly |
| Meaning | People who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group. |
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| Examples | "he spent hours reading to the blind" |
| Members | blind person |
| Broader | people |
| Verbs | blind; blind |
| Meaning | A hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters). |
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| Examples | "he waited impatiently in the blind" |
| Broader | screen, cover, covert, concealment |
| Meaning | Something that keeps things out or hinders sight. |
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| Examples | "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet" |
| Synonyms | screen |
| Broader | protective covering, protective cover, protection |
| Narrower | curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall; shutter; window blind; winker, blinker, blinder |
| Meaning | Something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity. |
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| Examples | "the holding company was just a blind" |
| Synonyms | subterfuge |
| Broader | misrepresentation, deceit, deception |
| Meaning | Render unable to see. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
| Narrower | dazzle, bedazzle, daze; seel; snow-blind |
| Nouns | blind; blinder |
| Meaning | Make blind by putting the eyes out. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
| Examples | "The criminals were punished and blinded" |
| Broader | change, alter, modify |
| Narrower | abacinate |
| Nouns | blind |
| Meaning | Make dim by comparison or conceal. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | dim |
| Broader | darken |
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