BLINDING


Meaning of BLINDING in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ blaɪndɪŋ ]

1.

A blinding light is extremely bright.

The doctor worked busily beneath the blinding lights of the delivery room.

= dazzling

ADJ : usu ADJ n

2.

You use blinding to emphasize that something is very obvious.

The miseries I went through made me suddenly realise with a blinding flash what life was all about.

ADJ : ADJ n [ emphasis ]

• blind‧ing‧ly

It is so blindingly obvious that defence must be the responsibility of the state.

ADV : ADV adj / adv

3.

Blinding pain is very strong pain.

There was a pain then, a quick, blinding agony that jumped along Danlo’s spine.

ADJ : usu ADJ n

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