Blinding \Blind"ing\, a.
   Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of
   understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.
   
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Blind \Blind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blinded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Blinding}.]
   1. To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. "To
      blind the truth and me." --Tennyson.
      
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            A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a
            guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . .
            a much greater.                       --South.
      
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   2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult
      for and painful to; to dazzle.
      
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            Her beauty all the rest did blind.    --P. Fletcher.
      
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   3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to
      conceal; to deceive.
      
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            Such darkness blinds the sky.         --Dryden.
      
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            The state of the controversy between us he
            endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.
                                                  --Stillingfleet.
      
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   4. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a
      road newly paved, in order that the joints between the
      stones may be filled.
      
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Blinding \Blind"ing\, n.
   A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved
   road. See {Blind}, v. t., 4.
   
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