blinding

n. layer of sand or fine gravel

adj. shining profoundly, causing inability to see

v. make unable to see; dazzle

Blinding can refer to:The act of making someone blindBlinding (cryptography), a technique by which an agent can provide a service to (i.e, compute a function for) a client in an encoded form without knowing either the real input or the real outputBlinding (medicine), an aspect of clinical trials of treatments or other interventions
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Adjective
1. shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun"
(synonym) blazing, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary
(similar) bright

Noun
1. people who have severe visual impairments; "he spent hours reading to the blind"
(hypernym) people
(member-meronym) blind person, blind man
2. a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); "he waited impatiently in the blind"
(hypernym) screen, cover, covert, concealment
3. something that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"
(synonym) screen
(hypernym) protective covering, protective cover, protection
(hyponym) curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall
4. 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"
(synonym) subterfuge
(hypernym) misrepresentation, deceit, deception
Verb
1. render unable to see
(hyponym) dazzle, bedazzle, daze
(derivation) winker, blinker, blinder
2. make blind by putting the eyes out; "The criminals were punished and blinded"
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
3. make dim by comparison or conceal
(synonym) dim
(hypernym) darken
Adjective
1. unable to see
(synonym) unsighted
(antonym) sighted
(similar) blinded
2. unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions"
(similar) unperceptive, unperceiving
3. not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic"
(synonym) unreasoning
(similar) irrational

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Blind
  

(n.)
A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.
  

(a.)
Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.
  

Synonyms and related words:
ablepsia, absolute, amaurosis, bedazzling, benightedness, bleeding, blessed, blind side, blind spot, blindfolding, blindness, blinking, blooming, blurring the eyes, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, cat-and-doggish, cataract, cecity, confounded, crude, darkness, dazzling, depriving of sight, dim-sightedness, doggone, downright, drippy, driving, drizzling, drizzly, drop serene, drumming, economic blindness, effulgent, ever-during dark, excecation, execrable, eyelessness, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashy, flaunting, fulgent, fulgid, garish, gaudy, glaring, glary, glaucoma, gross, gutta serena, hoodwinking, infernal, lack of vision, loud, lurid, making blind, misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, niphablepsia, obscuring, outright, overbright, partial blindness, pelting, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, pouring, psychic blindness, rainy, rank, raw, reduced sight, refulgent, resplendent, screaming, showery, shrieking, sightless eyes, sightlessness, snow blindness, soul-blindness, spiritual blindness, splendent, splendid, splendorous, stone-blindness, streaming, total blindness, trachoma, unenlightenment, unmitigated, unseeingness, vivid