blinding
Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
Adjective
- Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
- On it came, and with it came the glorious blinding cloud of many-coloured light, and stood before us for a space, turning, as it seemed to us, slowly round and round, and then, accompanied by its attendant pomp of...
- Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.
- blinding tears; blinding snow
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a...
- Brilliant; marvellous.
- “How’s it going?” “Blinding, mate.”
Origin
By surface analysis, blind + -ing.
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Adverb
- To an extreme degree; blindingly.
- certain 'details' of 'scientifically realized socialism' became blinding obvious - 1983, Régis Debray, Critique of Political Reason, page 6:
- He made the basket on his second attempt, after an exchange of moves so blinding fast that Derek could barely distinguish them. - 1997, Steven Barnes, Blood Brothers, page 190:
- I was in a nightmare, and everything was blinding bright, inky black, blinding bright; and fading, and fading - 2003, Sally Prue, The Devil's Toenail, page 139:
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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.
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Verb
- present participle and gerund of blind