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Blinding   /blˈaɪndɪŋ/   Listen
Blinding

adjective
1.
Shining intensely.  Synonyms: blazing, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary.  "Blinding headlights" , "Dazzling snow" , "Fulgent patterns of sunlight" , "The glaring sun"



Blind

verb
(past & past part. blinded; pres. part. blinding)
1.
Render unable to see.
2.
Make blind by putting the eyes out.
3.
Make dim by comparison or conceal.  Synonym: dim.



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"Blinding" Quotes from Famous Books



... ruin of Antony and Cleopatra must have struck many students of the records of their age as one of the most inexplicable of tragic tales. What malign influence and secret hates were at work, continually sapping their prosperity and blinding their judgment? Why did Cleopatra fly at Actium, and why did Antony follow her, leaving his fleet and army to destruction? An attempt is made in this romance to suggest a possible answer to these and some ...
— Cleopatra • H. Rider Haggard

... guessed—the tears blinding her as she walked—at the true meaning of Falloden's sudden impulse, and Otto's consent. Falloden's was an impulse of repentance; and Otto's had been an impulse of pardon, in the Christian sense. "If I am to die, I will die at peace with him." Was that the thought—the tragic and touching thought—in ...
— Lady Connie • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... wind howled! How the snow blew! It was a blinding storm, for from the windows of the conning tower and from those on either side of the cabin nothing could be discerned five feet away. Through the window in the bottom of the ship nothing showed but ...
— Through the Air to the North Pole - or The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch • Roy Rockwood

... fifth and last day of the trial, was ushered in by a tempest of wind and rain, that drove the blinding sheets of sleet against the court-house windows with the insistence of an icy flail; while now and then with spasmodic bursts of fury the gale heightened, rattled the sash, moaned hysterically, like invisible fiends tearing at the obstacles that barred entrance. So dense was the ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson

... distance in the west. Now and then a broad flash of light seemed to shine before his eyes, and ever there came to his ears the rumble of tramping thousands; the dust, too, was thickening, to take the place of the scattered mists, and the wind blew it up in blinding clouds into the face ...
— The Lion's Brood • Duffield Osborne


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