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years. 2 misfortune, curse, trouble, woe, calamity: Genius may
suffer an untimely blight.
--v. 3 afflict, infest, plague, scourge; wither, mar, taint,
blast: Central Africa has been blighted by famine after famine.
blind adj. 1 sightless, eyeless, unsighted, purblind, stone-blind:
He has been blind from birth. 2 imperceptive, slow,
insensitive, thick, dense, obtuse, stupid, weak-minded,
dull-witted, slow-witted, dim-witted, Colloq Brit gormless: How
blind some parents are! There's another case of the blind
leading the blind. 3 indiscriminate, undiscriminating, heedless,
reckless, rash, impetuous, inconsiderate, unreasoning, mindless,
senseless, thoughtless, unthinking, irrational, delusional: He
did her bidding with the blind obedience of a dog. 4 blind to.
unaware or unconscious of, impervious or insensible to,
unaffected or untouched or unmoved by: The critics were blind
to her merits as a novelist till many years had passed.
--v. 5 deceive, blindfold, blinker; bamboozle, hoodwink, fool:
Wolsey could not blind himself to the true condition of the
church. How jealousy blinds people! 6 conceal, hide, eclipse,
overshadow; dazzle, blindfold: The bright lights of the city
blinded our view of the airport runway. Her beauty blinded him
to her greed.
--n. 7 shade, curtain, screen, cover, shutter(s), awning: The
sun is too bright - please draw the blind. 8 pretence, pretext,
front, cover, smokescreen, stratagem, subterfuge, ruse, trick,
deception, Colloq dodge; Slang scam: The plumbing service is
merely a blind for getting into houses to rob them.
blindly adv. recklessly, heedlessly, deludedly, indiscriminately,
rashly, impetuously, irrationally, thoughtlessly, mindlessly,
senselessly, unthinkingly: Despite his parents' warnings, he
went blindly on, till one day he was arrested.
blink v. 1 wink, flicker, Technical nictitate: She blinked in the
strong light. 2 twinkle, flicker, gleam, glimmer, shimmer,
flash, sparkle, scintillate, coruscate: A billion stars blinked
in the wintry sky. 3 flinch, wince, shrink, quail, blench,
recoil, start, move: She didn't even blink when she had the
injection. 4 blink at. wink at, ignore, overlook, disregard: