blinding

/หˆblaษชndษชล‹/

IPA: /B L AY1 N D IH0 NG/

verb
  1. 1

    To make temporarily or permanently blind.

    โ€œDon't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?โ€

  2. 2

    To curse.

  3. 3

    To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.

  4. 4

    To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

noun
  1. 1

    The act of causing blindness.

  2. 2

    A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface.

  3. 3

    A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.

adjective
  1. 1

    Very bright (as if to cause blindness).

  2. 2

    Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.

    โ€œblinding tears;โ€ƒ blinding snowโ€

  3. 3

    Brilliant; marvellous.

    โ€œ"How's it going?"โ€‚ "Blinding, mate."โ€

adverb
  1. 1

    To an extreme degree; blindingly.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blind, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blinding