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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blind \Blind\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Blinded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blinding}.]
1. To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. ''To blind the truth and me.'' --Tennyson.
A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. --South.
2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
Her beauty all the rest did blind. --P. Fletcher.
3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.
Such darkness blinds the sky. --Dryden.
The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. --Stillingfleet.
4. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blinding \Blind"ing\, adjective Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blinding \Blind"ing\, noun A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See {Blind}, verb (used with an object), 4.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
blinding
adjective: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: {blazing}, {dazzling}, {fulgent}, {glaring}, {glary}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "blinding": ablepsia, absolute, amaurosis, bedazzling, benightedness, bleeding, blessed, blind side, blind spot, blindfolding, blindness, blinking, blooming, blurring the eyes, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, cat-and-doggish, cataract, cecity, confounded, crude, darkness, dazzling, depriving of sight, dim-sightedness, doggone, downright, drippy, driving, drizzling, drizzly, drop serene, drumming, economic blindness, effulgent, ever-during dark, excecation, execrable, eyelessness, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashy, flaunting, fulgent, fulgid, garish, gaudy, glaring, glary, glaucoma, gross, gutta serena, hoodwinking, infernal, lack of vision, loud, lurid, making blind, misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, niphablepsia, obscuring, outright, overbright, partial blindness, pelting, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, pouring, psychic blindness, rainy, rank, raw, reduced sight, refulgent, resplendent, screaming, showery, shrieking, sightless eyes, sightlessness, snow blindness, soul-blindness, spiritual blindness, splendent, splendid, splendorous, stone-blindness, streaming, total blindness, trachoma, unenlightenment, unmitigated, unseeingness, vivid
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