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blind   (TTS Sound)

The noun blind has 4 senses

• blind -- (people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group; "he spent hours reading to the blind")


• blind -- (a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); "he waited impatiently in the blind")


• blind, screen -- (a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet")


• subterfuge, blind -- (something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind")

The verb blind has 3 senses

• blind -- (render unable to see)


• blind -- (make blind by putting the eyes out; "The criminals were punished and blinded")


• blind, dim -- (make dim by comparison or conceal)

The adj blind has 3 senses

• blind, unsighted -- (unable to see; "a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision"--Kenneth Jernigan)


• blind -- (unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions")


• blind, unreasoning -- (not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic")