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BLINDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deprived of sight
Classified under:
Similar:
blind; unsighted (unable to see)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb blind
Context examples:
EXAMPLE(S): Double-blinded would indicate that both the investigator and the study subject would not know whether the intervention was a placebo or an active therapeutic intervention.
(Interventional Study Protocol Version Blinding Schema Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
The textual representation of the planned activity from the point of view of a blinded participant (study subject or study investigator).
(Planned Activity Blinded Description, NCI Thesaurus)
The quick eye of affection is not easily blinded, when of the female sex.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Both these activities would have the blinded name (something like) "3-shot Arm/Third Shot".
(Planned Activity Blinded Description, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
With great indignation did he continue to observe him; with great alarm and distrust, to observe also his two blinded companions.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
You are not sensible of the gain, for your regard for him has blinded you; but, in my estimation, your marrying early may be the saving of you.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He was confused and blinded by the rush of it and the beat of angry wings.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Often had Alleyne curled his lip at the beggarly craving for land or for gold which blinded man to the higher and more lasting issues of life.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was very weak and was afflicted with a giddiness which at times blinded him.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
During my first experiment, a kind of enthusiastic frenzy had blinded me to the horror of my employment; my mind was intently fixed on the consummation of my labour, and my eyes were shut to the horror of my proceedings.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
