blind
盲人,盲目,盲目的,瞎子
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Definitions
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blind·er, blind·est.
- : unable to see; having severely impaired or absolutely no sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- : unwilling or unable to perceive or understand: They were blind to their children's faults. He was blind to all arguments.
- : not characterized or determined by reason or control: blind tenacity; blind chance.
- : not having or based on reason or intelligence; absolute and unquestioning: She had blind faith in his fidelity.
- : lacking all consciousness or awareness: a blind stupor.
- : drunk.
- : hard to see or understand: blind reasoning.
- : hidden from immediate view, especially from oncoming motorists: a blind corner.
- : of concealed or undisclosed identity; sponsored anonymously: a blind ad signed only with a box number.
- : having no outlets; closed at one end: a blind passage; a blind mountain pass.
- : Architecture. having no windows, passageways, or the like.
- : dense enough to form a screen: a blind hedge of privet.
- : done without seeing; by instruments alone: blind flying.
- : made without some prior knowledge: a blind purchase; a blind lead in a card game.
- : of or relating to an experimental design that prevents investigators or subjects from knowing the hypotheses or conditions being tested.
- : of, relating to, or for blind persons.
- : Bookbinding. impressed into the cover or spine of a book by a die without ink or foil.
- : Cooking. baked or fried without the filling.
- : made so that the end inserted, though inaccessible, can be headed or spread.
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- : to make sightless permanently, temporarily, or momentarily, as by injuring, dazzling, bandaging the eyes, etc.: The explosion blinded him.We were blinded by the bright lights.
- : to make obscure or dark: The room was blinded by heavy curtains.
- : to deprive of discernment, reason, or judgment: a resentment that blinds his good sense.
- : to outshine; eclipse: a radiance that doth blind the sun.
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- : something that obstructs vision, as a blinker for a horse.
- : a window covering having horizontal or vertical slats that can be drawn out of the way, often with the angle of the slats adjustable to admit varying amounts of light.
- : venetian blind.
- : Chiefly Midland U.S. and British. window shade.
- : a lightly built structure of brush or other growths, especially one in which hunters conceal themselves: a duck blind.
- : an activity, organization, or the like for concealing or masking action or purpose; subterfuge: The store was just a blind for their gambling operation.
- : a decoy.
- : Slang. a bout of excessive drinking; drunken spree.
- : Poker. a compulsory bet made without prior knowledge of one's hand.
- : Usually the blind . persons who lack the sense of sight: The blind are said to have an acute sense of hearing.
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- : into a stupor; to the degree at which consciousness is lost: He drank himself blind.
- : without the ability to see clearly; lacking visibility; blindly: They were driving blind through the snowstorm.
- : without guidance or forethought: They were working blind and couldn't anticipate the effects of their actions.
- : to an extreme or absolute degree; completely: The confidence men cheated her blind.
Phrases
- blind alley
- blind as a bat
- blind leading the blind
- blind side
- blind spot
- fly blind
- rob someone blind
- turn a blind eye
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
So, it’s definitely like the blind person figuring out where the stove is in the room.
Digging further into the data reveals only larger blind spots.
I was so blinded by how beautiful they were, how great bedtime was.
When Walter became blind and hard of hearing, Margaret helped him in the voting booth.
Carefully crafted engagement cannot come from buying generic, context-blind ad exposures to consumers that simply “check the box” for a given sociodemographic or online behavior.
The numbers reinforce another article in the Post, in which cops confessed to “turning a blind eye” to minor crimes.
And in this era of impact-blind, across-the-board budget cuts, we see an opportunity.
What designer West lacks in productivity, he more than makes up for in pure, unadulterated confidence and blind anger.
Sandra Bullock won for ‘The Blind Side’ and Al Pacino lost for both Godfather movies.
Strandf could photograph anything from a blind woman to a picket fence and make the image indelible.
On May 13 Polavieja arrived in Barcelona physically broken, half blind, and with evident traces of a disordered liver.
The blind Samson of labor will seize upon the pillars of society and bring them down in a common destruction.
I do not wholly like these cold and stately English, yet I think I am not blind to their many sterling qualities.
And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and out of darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind shall see.
It is a blind act of unconscious absorption, however little be absorbed.