BLIND


Meaning of BLIND in English

I. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a blind bend (= that you cannot see around when you are driving )

Never overtake another car on a blind bend.

a blind corner (= one that you cannot see around )

The car had come speeding around a blind corner much too fast.

a blind/uncontrollable rage (= extreme uncontrolled anger that makes someone violent )

He lashed out in a blind rage.

a throbbing/pounding/blinding headache (= a very bad headache )

He had a throbbing headache, behind his nose and his eyes.

be born blind/deaf etc (= be blind, deaf etc when born )

blind alley

False information has led the police up a series of blind alleys.

blind date

Would you ever go on a blind date?

blind drunk British English (= very drunk )

All she wants to do is get blind drunk.

blind faith (= trusting someone without thinking )

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 )

I followed my father's commands with blind obedience.

blind panic (= a very strong feeling of fear )

He ran to the library in blind panic.

blind prejudice (= prejudice that stops you from considering the facts )

I tried to show him he was just talking out of blind prejudice.

blind spot

I have a blind spot where computers are concerned.

blinding/dazzling (= extremely bright )

The white buildings reflected a blinding light.

blind/unthinking loyalty (= loyalty to a person or group without questioning whether they are right - used disapprovingly )

Sarah was criticized for her blind loyalty to her husband.

brilliant/blinding flash

a brilliant flash of light

love is blind (= used to say that people do not notice the faults of the person they love )

Love is blind, I guess. How else could he stand to be with her?

roller blind

swear blind British English (= say very strongly )

She swore blind that she had never seen him before.

Venetian blind

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

almost

Most river dolphins are almost blind .

She stares that wide-eyed stare of hers, an almost blind stare, and jogs on to the court.

His head would explode, and his field of vision would contract until he was almost blind .

In that moment of almost blind panic, she doubted it.

He was almost blind without his glasses.

The plaintiff suffered from deteriorating eyesight and became almost blind .

completely

It was not until five months after the birth that Leannda's sight deteriorated rapidly until she went completely blind .

Unlike mechanical clocks, which are completely blind to their surroundings, a biological clock gets reset every day by the sun.

partially

It's left her partially blind and a semi-invalid, an easy target for robbers.

A partially blind , poor, black man with little or no book learning outside of the Bible heard a call.

And in the Homeric spirit, quite a few of the dramatis personae are blind , or partially blind.

totally

So they spend their lives in darkness, and, having no use for eyes, are totally blind .

The vast majority of people retain some useful sight, however, and very few become totally blind .

She's ninety-three and totally blind .

Where the column crosses an exposed area its flanks are guarded by soldiers, armed with huge jaws and totally blind .

Previously pupils with very little useful vision were referred to and treated all too often as if they were totally blind .

Without an eye you are totally blind .

■ NOUN

alley

Yet on several occasions when running out of defence he turned down blind alleys .

Progress can not be made without exploring blind alleys .

Dark passageways and blind alleys obscure the light at the end of the tunnel.

If the police went charging up a blind alley as a result of her information, it wouldn't be her fault.

Our analysis should clearly indicate the several blind alleys which Frey here explores.

The echinoderms may seem, from a human point of view, to be a blind alley of no particular importance.

This way of thinking has to be one of the blinder alleys that we have been led up by psychoanalysis.

bend

A combination of blind bends , and high speed frustrations has created a string of accident black spots.

Miss Defy screeched around a blind bend into the path of an oncoming sedan.

chance

No one wants to think that they are the product of blind chance and mindless selection.

date

Or a blind date with Black Francis??

They met on a blind date .

Once seated, Denice tells us she's only been on a blind date once before, and that was years ago.

In mid-September, he met Pamela Digby on a blind date and proposed.

They chose their high-flying ceremony after a blind date and party brought them together.

eye

How could people turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to the horrors that they suffered?

Other officers could be bribed to turn a blind eye , said a restaurant owner in the port of Algeciras.

But the police turn a blind eye to the lawbreaking.

He would prefer to turn a blind eye to the problem of asylum seekers around the world.

Windows like blind eyes reflected the lights of passing cars.

They just had to put up with it and turn a blind eye .

The women turn a blind eye .

They no longer supply pretexts for local bullies to oppress, nor reason for western governments to turn a blind eye .

faith

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Then you reposed an absolutely blind faith in the Emperor!

Memes for blind faith have their own ruthless ways of propagating themselves.

It was not blind faith that drove them to change the world, but a belief very well grounded in reality.

This is true of patriotic and political as well as religious blind faith .

Roof taught me shoulder fakes, which I did on blind faith .

Faith ceases to be laudable when it is blind faith.

Before, it has been with blind faith only.

obedience

The covenant will be an affair of the heart, not just blind obedience to the Law.

Safety is a matter of active attention and alert work practices, not blind obedience to arbitrary rules.

I followed his commands with blind obedience , never bothering to question what his purpose might have been.

panic

I grabbed a chair in a blind panic but heard Dad call out, telling me to put it down.

Not like shooting Sweet in a moment of blind panic .

The mist thickened and hid it, and I knew a moment's blind panic .

In that moment of almost blind panic , she doubted it.

That relaxed, even jokey, presence we offer you is at times a front for blind panic .

Even in a blind panic he knew better than to go for the tie.

In a crisis, there are two sorts of people: There are those who go into a blind panic .

prejudice

You can't see past your own stupid blind prejudice !

rage

When she went home, there was still the scarlet mark of blind rage across her palms.

She bore him three children and he killed the children and her in a blind rage arranged by Hera.

side

By 4.30 I was cruising round Seymour swimming pool, parking on the blind side as far as Sedgeley House was concerned.

As Steve McNair dropped back to throw, Chris Doleman came from his blind side .

If the killer comes prowling around to their side of the tree, they simply dart to the blind side again.

Collegians, McCluskey was once again on hand to finish a blind side move and score in the corner.

Johnston picked up his second try after great support for another fine Jonathan Wilson drive on the blind side .

spot

The trouble was, Tweed was thinking, Paula had a blind spot where Dalby was concerned.

But even Hymes has his blind spots .

It was the blind spot of the internationalist Left.

It is as though the panel has developed a blind spot which does not admit the possibility that the newcomer might win.

He knew if some one was standing in the blind spot directly behind him, he was in trouble.

Finlayson spent fifteen minutes teaching Tribe the signals, and describing the blind spots of enemy aircraft.

The queue shuffled into a blind spot between two viewports.

trust

It means blind trust , in the absence of evidence, even in the teeth of evidence.

Krauss never takes anything on blind trust .

For example, hope lies somewhere between blind trust and suspicion, but so does its opposite, despair.

Runyon declined a request to be interviewed Wednesday, and his statement failed to explain why the blind trust ended in 1994.

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

Could you pull the blinds, please?

I dragged her over to the side of the stage and began pulling the curtains.

It was getting dark so he pulled the curtains and put on the overhead light.

Marie pulls the curtains back and steps out.

She waited until the door was closed and then crossed to the window of her suite, pulling the curtains aside.

What we do is, pull the curtains shut and switch on the fire.

When we got to the room she went to pull the curtains.

rob sb blind

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a radio programme specially for the blind

Blake is now over 90, and almost blind .

My grandmother is almost totally blind .

The first bomb exploded with a blinding flash.

The light was blinding, and she covered her face.

The operation left their son blind and brain-damaged.

There's a blind man who sells popcorn on the corner.

Without treatment, the patient will go blind .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A nearby snack shop run by an organization of blind workers has shut down.

A partially blind , poor, black man with little or no book learning outside of the Bible heard a call.

But a blind person can still recognize a friend by the sound of his footsteps or even his scent.

He told her of the disease, of its origin, of the blind foolishness that had freed it.

Krauss never takes anything on blind trust.

She's about my age, and blind .

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

almost

Thunder shook the catamaran as she looked up at him, rain almost blinding her.

The light from the shirt almost blinded him.

A few shakes and the dust almost blinded him.

temporarily

Jimmy was temporarily blinded by the orange light which suddenly illuminated the car windscreen.

They had taken a burst through the cockpit, and the debris from the shot had temporarily blinded Sherman.

If the venom strikes his eyes it can temporarily blind him and possibly even permanently damage his sight.

At that moment, there came a terrible white flash, brighter than the Sun, which temporarily blinded me.

Car headlights made it difficult to see, in the way that an usherette's torch can temporarily blind .

A milkman has been temporarily blinded by two men who sprayed superglue into his eyes.

■ NOUN

light

Creed was blinded by stunning white light .

The heretofore brilliant, often blinding light of classical culture was gradually reduced to a pitiful flicker.

Suddenly the whole of his existence was engulfed in an inferno of blinding blue light .

As he emerged from the narrow gangway he was momentarily blinded by bright lights shining straight into his eyes.

Jimmy was temporarily blinded by the orange light which suddenly illuminated the car windscreen.

Lois could see through the hall and all the way back, where blinding light bounced off the patio.

Large animals, drinking, bounded back into the undergrowth, blinded by our lights .

The blinding light like no other light one had ever seen.

science

He had a limp, walked round importantly with a stick and talked big, blinding her with science .

You can blind me with science , but I know what I hear.

Both of these languages are capable of doing what you want and don't try to blind you with computer science .

It was his job to dazzle us with his brilliance, blind us with his science .

Thus preventing the driver being blinded by anything but science .

■ VERB

rob

Managers could rob you blind and probably, with the aid of electronic intelligence, even blinder.

Instead, he might be cursed with one who would rob him blind and charge him three-times the wages for the privilege.

turn

Outside, the steam turned to frost and blinded me.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

blinding headache

Perhaps he could plead a blinding headache, or an attack of tonsilitis?

blinding realization/clarity/revelation etc

Because then it was that she knew, with blinding clarity, what had been there for some time now.

It had come to him as a blinding revelation when he was but a small child.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A riding accident left her blinded in one eye.

Don't be blinded by emotion.

I was blinded by the truck's headlights.

Onlookers were blinded by the flash of the explosion.

Richards had been blinded in the war.

She adjusted the mirror to avoid being blinded by the glare.

The crash happened after drivers were blinded by a mixture of fog and thick black smoke.

The floodlight had blinded him and he couldn't see to reload his gun.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A fat ego can blind a corporate executive to reality like a bad cataract.

Dark cold stone loomed over him on both sides, blinding him.

It blinded Willie and trickled down inside the collar of his mackintosh.

Read in studio Attempts have been made to blind two horses by cutting them with Stanley knives as they were grazing.

When a vicious tackle leaves him blinded from a spinal injury, his life takes the predictable downward trajectory.

While he was blinded, Jane grabbed his beard with both hands and tugged.

III. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

venetian

Otherwise use Venetian blinds in plastic or wood which can be easily wiped, or wooden shutters, or no covering at all.

Another sign made of cardboard, resting against the venetian blinds in the window, announced Seven Topless Dancers.

Fine-slatted Venetian blinds show off the tall sash windows, which are too elegant to be obscured by curtains.

In the darkened room the slats of the venetian blinds were half-closed.

I remember the summer in Long Island, the light coming through the venetian blinds , the bathtub.

You walk quickly through, see the kitchen and go in there, pulling down the Venetian blinds .

They are more like a Venetian blind , effective but unassuming.

■ NOUN

roller

Most blinds other than a roller blind will screen out too much light.

This idea works equally well as a blind pull on roller blinds.

spot

Our persistent cultural blind spot on the effects of such exclusion is now proving to be very problematic.

Even when exposed to the principles of good communication, we may have big blind spots .

But the biggest blind spot is the inability of Bush and Evans to see that there are other perspectives on free trade.

window

The window blinds were down and he had a feeling that he was behind the scenes in a theatre.

She kept the place looking like a crime scene, right down to the fingerprint dust on the window blinds .

Her eyelids flew up like window blinds wound too tightly.

Cornelius observed that the wooden bobbin dangling on a string from the window blind was the shape of an acorn.

■ VERB

draw

Don't draw blinds or curtains. you should also consider putting in lighting time switches.

In the first car, behind drawn blinds , sat the grim figure of Mark Watterson.

Some one down there hadn't drawn the blinds .

fly

Her eyelids flew up like window blinds wound too tightly.

go

Many sufferers go blind by the age of 30 or 40 because of damage to the retina.

I would have gone blind and died.

Used to be a bloke on the estate who thought he was going blind .

Who cared if I went blind ?

Often men went blind , their teeth rotted and fell out, and some died.

lead

This is called the blind leading the blind.

It has become a case of the blind leading the blind.

pull

Would you mind pulling down the blinds ?

The western sun would scorch and dazzle and we would pull down the blinds in the compartment.

You walk quickly through, see the kitchen and go in there, pulling down the Venetian blinds .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

blinding headache

Perhaps he could plead a blinding headache, or an attack of tonsilitis?

blinding realization/clarity/revelation etc

Because then it was that she knew, with blinding clarity, what had been there for some time now.

It had come to him as a blinding revelation when he was but a small child.

effing and blinding

pull the curtains/blinds

Could you pull the blinds, please?

I dragged her over to the side of the stage and began pulling the curtains.

It was getting dark so he pulled the curtains and put on the overhead light.

Marie pulls the curtains back and steps out.

She waited until the door was closed and then crossed to the window of her suite, pulling the curtains aside.

What we do is, pull the curtains shut and switch on the fire.

When we got to the room she went to pull the curtains.

rob sb blind

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

This tiny black fly is the biggest cause of blindness in Central Africa.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

It is far better to use cafe curtains, short, tied-back curtains, or blinds.

The blinds pulled, by her domestic decree, half way down the windows discouraged all hope.

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