Blinding
['blaɪndɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blind
(a.) Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.
(n.) A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.
Checker: Nanette
Examples
- The blinding snow and bitter cold are nothing to her, I believe; yet she is but a 'chitty-faced creature,' as my mother would say. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We have told our story of Europe; the reader may judge whether the glitter of the German sword is exceptionally blinding. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He stared at her, groping in a blackness through which a single arrow of light tore its blinding way. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- A blinding gust of smoke blotted out the tragedy within that fearsome cell--a shriek rang out, a single shriek, as the dagger fell. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Edison's great effort--not to make a large light or a blinding light, but a small light having the mildness of gas. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She was embarrassed before Robert Jordan by this talk of blinding. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The next day a keen wind brought fresh and blinding falls; by twilight the valley was drifted up and almost impassable. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- A blinding flash went over his brain, his body jolted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A sharp pebble flew by her, grazing forehead and cheek, and drawing a blinding sheet of light before her eyes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The blinding tears shut her out from my eyes, and I dashed them away to look at her for the last time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was the surprise at the blinding flash and the deafening roar that had caused her hasty but temporary retreat. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- In a moment a dozen men broke through the now blinding smoke to my side. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Though that blinding business puts him in a special class. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Speak of blinding again and you can go with the other. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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