Word Finder - blind

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A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.

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A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.

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Any device intended to conceal or hide.

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a duck blind

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Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.

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A blindage.

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A halting place.

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The blindside.

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(1800s) No score.

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A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.

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The blinds are $10/$20 and the ante is $1.

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A player who is forced to pay such a bet.

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The blinds immediately folded when I reraised.

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(as a plural) Those who are blind, taken as a group.

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To make temporarily or permanently blind.

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Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?

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To curse.

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To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.

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To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

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(of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

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(of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

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Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.

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Authors are blind to their own defects.

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Of a place, having little or no visibility.

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a blind corner

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Closed at one end; having a dead end

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a blind gut

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Having no openings for light or passage.

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a blind alley

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(in certain phrases) Smallest or slightest.

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I shouted, but he didn't take a blind bit of notice.

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Without any prior knowledge.

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He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport.

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Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.

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blind deference

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Unintelligible or illegible.

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a blind passage in a book; blind writing

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Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.

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blind buds

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Without seeing; unseeingly.

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Absolutely, totally.

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to swear blind

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(three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.