blinding
IPA: bɫˈaɪndɪŋ
noun
- The act of causing blindness.
- A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface.
- A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.
adjective
- Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
- Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.
- (UK, slang) Brilliant; marvellous.
adverb
- (nonstandard) To an extreme degree; blindingly.
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Examples of "blinding" in Sentences
- But then, we had to walk to and from school in blinding snow uphill ...
- I don't want to use the term blinding light, but epiphany would be an appropriate term.
- Ziva teasing Tony on NCIS, who's dressed in blinding white disco duds as Saturday Night Fever's Tony Manero. ...
- Sometimes she went out clubbing with the other toms, had what she called a blinding night and did not expect him to question her right to do this.
- If fact, so blinding is their hate for Bush, nutty libs will block progress (fair tax, Iraq war for example) just so they can blame Bush for failures they caused.
- HARE: Well, this is always the trick, and this is why it's so important to do this in a scientifically rigorous fashion, with placebos and with what we call blinding.
- The rain, which had started at some point during my talk, was coming down in blinding sheets now, rendering the campus a muddy pit as we made our mad dash for the car.
- There does seem to be an impression around that a few years ago some of us in the Bank of Canada were struck down on the road to inflation by a blinding light -- the word "blinding" is sometimes emphasized -- and experienced a sudden conversion to a new farout religion called monetarism.
- Training fails to adress the issue too-yet needs to to stop the waste of public money and resources on officers who wont work Friday and Saturday nights-if they cant take a bit of Fing and blinding from the Training Sgt how are they going to cope with someone trying to gouge their eyes out in a pub fight?
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