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BLINDING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shining intensely
Example:
the glaring sun
Synonyms:
blazing; blinding; dazzling; fulgent; glaring; glary
Classified under:
Similar:
bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb blind
Context examples:
The next day a keen wind brought fresh and blinding falls; by twilight the valley was drifted up and almost impassable.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
All the overpowering, blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Down came another blinding rush of driving snow, and the whole landscape was blotted out.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
For three days this blinding headache lasted, and he suffered as wild animals suffer, as it seemed the way on ship to suffer, without plaint, without sympathy, utterly alone.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Once he dared, one afternoon, when he found her in the darkened living room with a blinding headache.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The tremendous sea itself, when I could find sufficient pause to look at it, in the agitation of the blinding wind, the flying stones and sand, and the awful noise, confounded me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The treasurer was of the same opinion: he showed to what straits his majesty’s revenue was reduced, by the charge of maintaining you, which would soon grow insupportable; that the secretary’s expedient of putting out your eyes, was so far from being a remedy against this evil, that it would probably increase it, as is manifest from the common practice of blinding some kind of fowls, after which they fed the faster, and grew sooner fat; that his sacred majesty and the council, who are your judges, were, in their own consciences, fully convinced of your guilt, which was a sufficient argument to condemn you to death, without the formal proofs required by the strict letter of the law.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
An institute within the National Institutes of Health with the mission to conduct and support research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to blinding eye diseases, visual disorders, mechanisms of visual function, preservation of sight, and the special health problems and requirements of the blind.
(National Eye Institute, NCI Thesaurus)
The muscles of his whole body contracted spasmodically and instinctively, the hair on his neck and shoulders stood on end, and with a ferocious snarl he bounded straight up into the blinding day, the snow flying about him in a flashing cloud.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The Biostatistics Shared Resource works with Cancer Center investigators to define study/protocol objectives and endpoints, analyze pilot data, select an appropriate study design, blinding methods and randomization scheme, plan interim analyses, define an adequate sample size and accrual rate, develop and evaluate the statistical methods and analyse data, prepare statistical sections of the grant and protocol applications, analyze and design relational databases, forms and reports.
(Biostatistics Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
