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blind
  1. 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.
  2. A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
  3. Any device intended to conceal or hide.
  4. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
  5. (military) A blindage.
  6. A halting place.
  7. (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
  8. (poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
  9. (poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
  10. (as a plural) Those who are blind, taken as a group.
  11. Synonyms:
      12. screen, canopy, cover, shade, shutter, awning, covering, louver, louvre, curtain, protection, sunshade, jalousie, persienne, blinder, blindfold, blinker, trap, veil, visor, Austrian blind, roller blind, venetian blind, Venetian blind, window shade, shield, persiennes, drape, tent, shelter, baldachin, tester, velarium, marquee, tarpaulin, sunblind, door cover, sun shelter, camouflage, cloak, front, mask, deception, masquerade, disguise, facade, feint, pretext … more
  12. Examples:
      13. “Once the door had been shut and locked, Krupka moved to the window and pulled the blind down.”
      “It did not occur to Bilbo that the absurdly long book might have been a blind for this patron's real intentions for being at the library.”
blindness
  1. The condition of being blind; unable to see.
  2. (figuratively) Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
  3. (obsolete) concealment
  4. Synonyms:
      5. amaurosis, sightlessness, anopsia, purblindness, impaired vision, loss of sight, anopia, carelessness, heedlessness, impetuousness, rashness, recklessness, thoughtlessness … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Her blindness was a result of a genetic condition that left her without the ability to see.”
      “Due to his blindness while driving, he caused a severe accident by running a red light.”
      “His blindness ensures that she does not, once again, become the object of the male gaze.”
blinding
  1. The act of causing blindness.
  2. A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface.
  3. A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.
blindism
  1. Any of various stereotypies characteristic of blind people, such as eye-rubbing and hand-flapping.
blindingness
  1. The quality of being blinding.
blinds
  1. plural of blind
  2. window coverings, especially vertical blinds, wood blinds, roller blinds, pleated blinds.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. screens, canopies, covers, shade, shutters, awnings, covering, louvers, louvres, curtains, protection, sunshades, jalousies, persienne, blinders, blindfolds, blinkers, traps, veils, visors, roller blinds, Venetian blinds, window shades, camouflage, cloaks, fronts, masks, deception, masquerades, disguises, facades, feints, pretexts, smokescreens, contrivances, devices, maneuvers, manoeuvres, moves, ploys, ruses, schemes, stratagems, tricks, artifice, dodges, expedients, machinations … more
blindnesses
  1. plural of blindness
  2. Synonyms:
      3. amauroses, sightlessness, anopsias, purblindness, anopias, carelessnesses, heedlessnesses, rashnesses, recklessnesses, thoughtlessness, illiteracies, innocences, unawarenesses, benightedness, ignorances, nesciences, cluelessness, unfamiliarities, naivete, incomprehension, rawnesses, oblivions, inscience, unconsciousnesses, bewilderments, unscholarliness, insensitivities, shallownesses, densenesses, obtusenesses, dumbnesses, callownesses, disregards, inexperiences, darknesses, fogs, incapacities, philistinisms, sciolisms, simplicities, uncouthnesses, crudenesses, vaguenesses, illiterateness, incognizance, obliviousnesses, witlessnesses, unacquaintedness, unaccustomedness, unknowingness … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “It should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them.”
      “Scholars of all ranks show how Wentworth was the product of a thousand horrific cultural blindnesses and Eurocentric brutalities.”
      “She told it in her own way with characteristic blindnesses and hardnesses, but the truth of it was this.”
blindings
  1. plural of blinding
blindisms
  1. plural of blindism
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