I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blind bend (= that you cannot see around when you are driving )
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Never overtake another car on a blind bend.
a blind corner (= one that you cannot see around )
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The car had come speeding around a blind corner much too fast.
a blind/uncontrollable rage (= extreme uncontrolled anger that makes someone violent )
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He lashed out in a blind rage.
a throbbing/pounding/blinding headache (= a very bad headache )
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He had a throbbing headache, behind his nose and his eyes.
be born blind/deaf etc (= be blind, deaf etc when born )
blind alley
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False information has led the police up a series of blind alleys.
blind date
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Would you ever go on a blind date?
blind drunk British English (= very drunk )
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All she wants to do is get blind drunk.
blind faith (= trusting someone without thinking )
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He believes that our blind faith in technology is misplaced.
blind man's buff
blind obedience (= when you obey rules or a person without thinking about why )
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I followed my father's commands with blind obedience.
blind panic (= a very strong feeling of fear )
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He ran to the library in blind panic.
blind prejudice (= prejudice that stops you from considering the facts )
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I tried to show him he was just talking out of blind prejudice.
blind spot
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I have a blind spot where computers are concerned.
blinding/dazzling (= extremely bright )
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The white buildings reflected a blinding light.
blind/unthinking loyalty (= loyalty to a person or group without questioning whether they are right - used disapprovingly )
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Sarah was criticized for her blind loyalty to her husband.
brilliant/blinding flash
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a brilliant flash of light
love is blind (= used to say that people do not notice the faults of the person they love )
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Love is blind, I guess. How else could he stand to be with her?
roller blind
swear blind British English (= say very strongly )
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She swore blind that she had never seen him before.
Venetian blind
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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Most river dolphins are almost blind .
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She stares that wide-eyed stare of hers, an almost blind stare, and jogs on to the court.
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His head would explode, and his field of vision would contract until he was almost blind .
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In that moment of almost blind panic, she doubted it.
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He was almost blind without his glasses.
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The plaintiff suffered from deteriorating eyesight and became almost blind .
completely
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It was not until five months after the birth that Leannda's sight deteriorated rapidly until she went completely blind .
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Unlike mechanical clocks, which are completely blind to their surroundings, a biological clock gets reset every day by the sun.
partially
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It's left her partially blind and a semi-invalid, an easy target for robbers.
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A partially blind , poor, black man with little or no book learning outside of the Bible heard a call.
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And in the Homeric spirit, quite a few of the dramatis personae are blind , or partially blind.
totally
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So they spend their lives in darkness, and, having no use for eyes, are totally blind .
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The vast majority of people retain some useful sight, however, and very few become totally blind .
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She's ninety-three and totally blind .
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Where the column crosses an exposed area its flanks are guarded by soldiers, armed with huge jaws and totally blind .
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Previously pupils with very little useful vision were referred to and treated all too often as if they were totally blind .
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Without an eye you are totally blind .
■ NOUN
alley
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Yet on several occasions when running out of defence he turned down blind alleys .
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Progress can not be made without exploring blind alleys .
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Dark passageways and blind alleys obscure the light at the end of the tunnel.
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If the police went charging up a blind alley as a result of her information, it wouldn't be her fault.
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Our analysis should clearly indicate the several blind alleys which Frey here explores.
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The echinoderms may seem, from a human point of view, to be a blind alley of no particular importance.
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This way of thinking has to be one of the blinder alleys that we have been led up by psychoanalysis.
bend
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A combination of blind bends , and high speed frustrations has created a string of accident black spots.
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Miss Defy screeched around a blind bend into the path of an oncoming sedan.
chance
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No one wants to think that they are the product of blind chance and mindless selection.
date
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Or a blind date with Black Francis??
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They met on a blind date .
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Once seated, Denice tells us she's only been on a blind date once before, and that was years ago.
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In mid-September, he met Pamela Digby on a blind date and proposed.
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They chose their high-flying ceremony after a blind date and party brought them together.
eye
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How could people turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to the horrors that they suffered?
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Other officers could be bribed to turn a blind eye , said a restaurant owner in the port of Algeciras.
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But the police turn a blind eye to the lawbreaking.
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He would prefer to turn a blind eye to the problem of asylum seekers around the world.
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Windows like blind eyes reflected the lights of passing cars.
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They just had to put up with it and turn a blind eye .
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The women turn a blind eye .
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They no longer supply pretexts for local bullies to oppress, nor reason for western governments to turn a blind eye .
faith
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Then you reposed an absolutely blind faith in the Emperor!
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Memes for blind faith have their own ruthless ways of propagating themselves.
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It was not blind faith that drove them to change the world, but a belief very well grounded in reality.
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This is true of patriotic and political as well as religious blind faith .
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Roof taught me shoulder fakes, which I did on blind faith .
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Faith ceases to be laudable when it is blind faith.
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Before, it has been with blind faith only.
obedience
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The covenant will be an affair of the heart, not just blind obedience to the Law.
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Safety is a matter of active attention and alert work practices, not blind obedience to arbitrary rules.
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I followed his commands with blind obedience , never bothering to question what his purpose might have been.
panic
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I grabbed a chair in a blind panic but heard Dad call out, telling me to put it down.
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Not like shooting Sweet in a moment of blind panic .
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The mist thickened and hid it, and I knew a moment's blind panic .
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In that moment of almost blind panic , she doubted it.
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That relaxed, even jokey, presence we offer you is at times a front for blind panic .
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Even in a blind panic he knew better than to go for the tie.
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In a crisis, there are two sorts of people: There are those who go into a blind panic .
prejudice
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You can't see past your own stupid blind prejudice !
rage
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When she went home, there was still the scarlet mark of blind rage across her palms.
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She bore him three children and he killed the children and her in a blind rage arranged by Hera.
side
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By 4.30 I was cruising round Seymour swimming pool, parking on the blind side as far as Sedgeley House was concerned.
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As Steve McNair dropped back to throw, Chris Doleman came from his blind side .
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If the killer comes prowling around to their side of the tree, they simply dart to the blind side again.
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Collegians, McCluskey was once again on hand to finish a blind side move and score in the corner.
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Johnston picked up his second try after great support for another fine Jonathan Wilson drive on the blind side .
spot
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The trouble was, Tweed was thinking, Paula had a blind spot where Dalby was concerned.
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But even Hymes has his blind spots .
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It was the blind spot of the internationalist Left.
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It is as though the panel has developed a blind spot which does not admit the possibility that the newcomer might win.
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He knew if some one was standing in the blind spot directly behind him, he was in trouble.
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Finlayson spent fifteen minutes teaching Tribe the signals, and describing the blind spots of enemy aircraft.
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The queue shuffled into a blind spot between two viewports.
trust
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It means blind trust , in the absence of evidence, even in the teeth of evidence.
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Krauss never takes anything on blind trust .
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For example, hope lies somewhere between blind trust and suspicion, but so does its opposite, despair.
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Runyon declined a request to be interviewed Wednesday, and his statement failed to explain why the blind trust ended in 1994.
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Many senior public officials keep their stocks in blind trusts throughout their tenure in office.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
effing and blinding
pull the curtains/blinds
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Could you pull the blinds, please?
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I dragged her over to the side of the stage and began pulling the curtains.
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It was getting dark so he pulled the curtains and put on the overhead light.
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Marie pulls the curtains back and steps out.
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She waited until the door was closed and then crossed to the window of her suite, pulling the curtains aside.
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What we do is, pull the curtains shut and switch on the fire.
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When we got to the room she went to pull the curtains.
rob sb blind
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a radio programme specially for the blind
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Blake is now over 90, and almost blind .
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My grandmother is almost totally blind .
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The first bomb exploded with a blinding flash.
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The light was blinding, and she covered her face.
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The operation left their son blind and brain-damaged.
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There's a blind man who sells popcorn on the corner.
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Without treatment, the patient will go blind .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A nearby snack shop run by an organization of blind workers has shut down.
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A partially blind , poor, black man with little or no book learning outside of the Bible heard a call.
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But a blind person can still recognize a friend by the sound of his footsteps or even his scent.
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He told her of the disease, of its origin, of the blind foolishness that had freed it.
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Krauss never takes anything on blind trust.
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She's about my age, and blind .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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Thunder shook the catamaran as she looked up at him, rain almost blinding her.
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The light from the shirt almost blinded him.
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A few shakes and the dust almost blinded him.
temporarily
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Jimmy was temporarily blinded by the orange light which suddenly illuminated the car windscreen.
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They had taken a burst through the cockpit, and the debris from the shot had temporarily blinded Sherman.
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If the venom strikes his eyes it can temporarily blind him and possibly even permanently damage his sight.
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At that moment, there came a terrible white flash, brighter than the Sun, which temporarily blinded me.
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Car headlights made it difficult to see, in the way that an usherette's torch can temporarily blind .
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A milkman has been temporarily blinded by two men who sprayed superglue into his eyes.
■ NOUN
light
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Creed was blinded by stunning white light .
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The heretofore brilliant, often blinding light of classical culture was gradually reduced to a pitiful flicker.
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Suddenly the whole of his existence was engulfed in an inferno of blinding blue light .
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As he emerged from the narrow gangway he was momentarily blinded by bright lights shining straight into his eyes.
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Jimmy was temporarily blinded by the orange light which suddenly illuminated the car windscreen.
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Lois could see through the hall and all the way back, where blinding light bounced off the patio.
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Large animals, drinking, bounded back into the undergrowth, blinded by our lights .
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The blinding light like no other light one had ever seen.
science
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He had a limp, walked round importantly with a stick and talked big, blinding her with science .
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You can blind me with science , but I know what I hear.
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Both of these languages are capable of doing what you want and don't try to blind you with computer science .
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It was his job to dazzle us with his brilliance, blind us with his science .
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Thus preventing the driver being blinded by anything but science .
■ VERB
rob
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Managers could rob you blind and probably, with the aid of electronic intelligence, even blinder.
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Instead, he might be cursed with one who would rob him blind and charge him three-times the wages for the privilege.
turn
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Outside, the steam turned to frost and blinded me.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blinding headache
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Perhaps he could plead a blinding headache, or an attack of tonsilitis?
blinding realization/clarity/revelation etc
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Because then it was that she knew, with blinding clarity, what had been there for some time now.
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It had come to him as a blinding revelation when he was but a small child.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A riding accident left her blinded in one eye.
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Don't be blinded by emotion.
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I was blinded by the truck's headlights.
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Onlookers were blinded by the flash of the explosion.
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Richards had been blinded in the war.
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She adjusted the mirror to avoid being blinded by the glare.
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The crash happened after drivers were blinded by a mixture of fog and thick black smoke.
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The floodlight had blinded him and he couldn't see to reload his gun.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A fat ego can blind a corporate executive to reality like a bad cataract.
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Dark cold stone loomed over him on both sides, blinding him.
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It blinded Willie and trickled down inside the collar of his mackintosh.
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Read in studio Attempts have been made to blind two horses by cutting them with Stanley knives as they were grazing.
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When a vicious tackle leaves him blinded from a spinal injury, his life takes the predictable downward trajectory.
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While he was blinded, Jane grabbed his beard with both hands and tugged.
III. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
venetian
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Otherwise use Venetian blinds in plastic or wood which can be easily wiped, or wooden shutters, or no covering at all.
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Another sign made of cardboard, resting against the venetian blinds in the window, announced Seven Topless Dancers.
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Fine-slatted Venetian blinds show off the tall sash windows, which are too elegant to be obscured by curtains.
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In the darkened room the slats of the venetian blinds were half-closed.
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I remember the summer in Long Island, the light coming through the venetian blinds , the bathtub.
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You walk quickly through, see the kitchen and go in there, pulling down the Venetian blinds .
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They are more like a Venetian blind , effective but unassuming.
■ NOUN
roller
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Most blinds other than a roller blind will screen out too much light.
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This idea works equally well as a blind pull on roller blinds.
spot
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Our persistent cultural blind spot on the effects of such exclusion is now proving to be very problematic.
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Even when exposed to the principles of good communication, we may have big blind spots .
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But the biggest blind spot is the inability of Bush and Evans to see that there are other perspectives on free trade.
window
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The window blinds were down and he had a feeling that he was behind the scenes in a theatre.
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She kept the place looking like a crime scene, right down to the fingerprint dust on the window blinds .
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Her eyelids flew up like window blinds wound too tightly.
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Cornelius observed that the wooden bobbin dangling on a string from the window blind was the shape of an acorn.
■ VERB
draw
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Don't draw blinds or curtains. you should also consider putting in lighting time switches.
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In the first car, behind drawn blinds , sat the grim figure of Mark Watterson.
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Some one down there hadn't drawn the blinds .
fly
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Her eyelids flew up like window blinds wound too tightly.
go
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Many sufferers go blind by the age of 30 or 40 because of damage to the retina.
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I would have gone blind and died.
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Used to be a bloke on the estate who thought he was going blind .
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Who cared if I went blind ?
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Often men went blind , their teeth rotted and fell out, and some died.
lead
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This is called the blind leading the blind.
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It has become a case of the blind leading the blind.
pull
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Would you mind pulling down the blinds ?
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The western sun would scorch and dazzle and we would pull down the blinds in the compartment.
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You walk quickly through, see the kitchen and go in there, pulling down the Venetian blinds .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blinding headache
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Perhaps he could plead a blinding headache, or an attack of tonsilitis?
blinding realization/clarity/revelation etc
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Because then it was that she knew, with blinding clarity, what had been there for some time now.
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It had come to him as a blinding revelation when he was but a small child.
effing and blinding
pull the curtains/blinds
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Could you pull the blinds, please?
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I dragged her over to the side of the stage and began pulling the curtains.
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It was getting dark so he pulled the curtains and put on the overhead light.
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Marie pulls the curtains back and steps out.
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She waited until the door was closed and then crossed to the window of her suite, pulling the curtains aside.
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What we do is, pull the curtains shut and switch on the fire.
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When we got to the room she went to pull the curtains.
rob sb blind
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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This tiny black fly is the biggest cause of blindness in Central Africa.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It is far better to use cafe curtains, short, tied-back curtains, or blinds.
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The blinds pulled, by her domestic decree, half way down the windows discouraged all hope.