adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blindly obey (= to obey without asking any questions )
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He looked terrified, but blindly obeyed.
stare unseeingly/blindly literary (= not noticing anything, although your eyes are open )
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She sat down on the bed and stared unseeingly at the wall.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
follow
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It wasn't in his nature to follow blindly .
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But people who blindly follow their published footprints will, of necessity, get there after the gurus themselves.
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Sentences and stories hint at their subjects before hunting them down, so that you keep having to trust her and follow blindly .
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What the historical record shows is that people are not insects blindly following some genetic script.
stare
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Sinking down into the seat, she stared blindly through the windscreen, her thoughts on her distant family.
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Mr Rolleman was lying almost at her feet, his eyes staring blindly upward from a face of ghastly purple.
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After a while she gave up, and left him sitting there, staring blindly into an unimaginable future.
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Unexpected, it was like a surprise confrontation, and for a moment she could only stare blindly at the familiar name.
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Throughout the passage, Ahab stands on the deck as if transfixed, staring blindly ahead into the wind and sleet.
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She sensed the long look he directed at her, but continued to stare blindly ahead.
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His eyes were wide open, staring blindly at the ceiling - his face was a mottled blue.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He was found wandering blindly in the woods.
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I'm not one of these people who blindly trust authority.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A University is not some great machine which trundles on its way, going blindly about its purposes.
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He was delivering money and weapons but would not support the operation blindly .
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It wasn't in his nature to follow blindly .
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Maybe that was the basic problem, she told herself wearily as she now stared blindly up at the ceiling.
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Often they were forced to leap blindly into ravines five or ten feet deep.
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She wondered how many other such eagles she had blindly passed.
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Throughout the passage, Ahab stands on the deck as if transfixed, staring blindly ahead into the wind and sleet.