blindblind1 /blaɪnd/ ●●● S2 W3 adjective 
a school for blind children the needs of blind peopletotally/completely/almost/partially blind She’s almost blind in her right eye. He was slowly going blind (=becoming blind). Beverley was born blind. b)the blind [plural] people who are unable to see: talking books for the blind c)as blind as a bat unable to see well – used humorously: I’m as blind as a bat without my glasses. d)blind with tears/rage/pain etc unable to see because of tears, pain, or a strong emotion: She screamed at him, her eyes blind with tears.2 be blind to something to completely fail to notice or realize something: International companies are all too often blind to local needs. He was totally blind to the faults of his children.3 turn a blind eye (to something) to deliberately ignore something that you know should not be happening: Teachers were turning a blind eye to smoking in school.4 not take/pay a blind bit of notice British English informal to completely ignore what someone does or says, especially in a way that is annoying: He never pays a blind bit of notice to what his staff tell him.5not make a blind bit of difference British English informal used to emphasize that whatever someone says or does will not change the situation at all: Try and talk to her if you want, but I don’t think it’ll make a blind bit of difference.6feelings a)blind faith/prejudice/obedience etc strong feelings that someone has without thinking about why they have them – used to show disapproval: Blind faith sent thousands of people to a pointless war. a story about blind loyalty b)blind panic/rage strong feelings of fear or anger that you cannot control: In a moment of blind panic, she had pulled the trigger and shot the man dead. Blind rage took hold of him.7road blind bend/corner a corner in a road that you cannot see beyond when you are driving8the blind leading the blind used to say that people who do not know much about what they are doing are guiding or advising others who know nothing at all9aircraft blind flying is when you use only instruments to fly an aircraft because you cannot see through cloud, mist etc—blindness noun
WORD ORIGINblind1
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Old EnglishEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a radio programme specially for the blind
- Blake is now over 90, and almost blind.
- My grandmother is almost totally blind.
- The first bomb exploded with a blinding flash.
- The light was blinding, and she covered her face.
- The operation left their son blind and brain-damaged.
- There's a blind man who sells popcorn on the corner.
- Without treatment, the patient will go blind.
- A nearby snack shop run by an organization of blind workers has shut down.
- A partially blind, poor, black man with little or no book learning outside of the Bible heard a call.
- But a blind person can still recognize a friend by the sound of his footsteps or even his scent.
- He told her of the disease, of its origin, of the blind foolishness that had freed it.
- Krauss never takes anything on blind trust.
- She's about my age, and blind.
Longman Language Activatorvery drunk
· Every Saturday night he came home blind drunk.· Don't give him anything more to drink. He's already blind drunk.
very drunk and very noisy: · They were all roaring drunk and kept singing bawdy songs.
spoken informal very drunk: · We went to a nightclub in town last night and got absolutely plastered.· She came home completely smashed at about 2 o'clock this morning.· Man, you were so trashed. How much did you have to drink?
American spoken very drunk: · Did you see Kim at Rob's party? She was totally wasted.· He's loaded. Somebody better call him a cab.· I was so bombed, I can't even remember half of what I did.
British spoken extremely drunk: · Don't give Dave any more to drink -- he's already legless.· The day I got my exam results we went out and got absolutely paralytic.
too willing to do what you are told to do always willing to do what someone tells you to do even if it is unpleasant or they ask you in an unpleasant way: · My father was a violent, demanding man, who expected my mother to be completely submissive.· If you constantly try to make someone happy, you end up becoming submissive, saying yes when you don't really mean it.
informal someone who always agrees with and obeys their employer or leader etc: · It's no good applying for a job with him unless you're happy being a yes-man.· She packed the committees with yes-men and then did just what she liked.
obeying someone too eagerly and showing them too much respect: · The driver asked in a servile tone for more instructions.· He was young and hard-working, though annoyingly servile.
someone who is subservient is always willing to do what people tell them to do and behaves as if they expect to be told what to do: · The waiter had an excessively subservient manner that made us very uncomfortable.subservient to: · What she hated about being a nurse was having to be so subservient to doctors.
: slavish obedience/compliance/conformity etc obeying much too easily without thinking or asking questions: · The women's slavish obedience disgusted me.· He was able to manipulate their slavish willingness to serve in the name of patriotism.
too obedient because you are used to obeying people or because you are afraid not to obey: · It's depressing to see an intelligent, spirited young woman like her turning into a meek and compliant wife.· Patients who are less compliant may be forced to take medication against their will.
when someone does whatever someone else tells them to do, without thinking for themselves about whether it is right or wrong: · With blind obedience, I allowed Victor to organize my life.
someone who is always too willing to do what someone else, especially someone in authority, tells them to do, even when this is wrong: · Many employees regarded Human Resources staff as little more than management lackeys.· Some poeple in the UK were worried that their country might be regarded as simply being a lackey of the US.
unable to see someone who is blind cannot see at all: · Blake is now over 90, and almost blind.· The operation left their son blind and brain-damaged.· There's a blind man who sells popcorn on the corner.go blind (=become blind): · Without treatment, the patient will go blind.the blind (=people who are blind): · a radio programme specially for the blind
especially spoken if you can't see , you are unable to see things, either because there is something wrong with your sight, or because something is preventing you seeing clearly: · He makes fun of me because I can't see that well.· It was pitch black and I couldn't see.· You can't see from here, but they're out there.· That was the morning I got up, and I couldn't see.
unable to see very well unable to see things that are far away: · 'Are you short-sighted then?' 'Yeah, can't see a thing without my lenses.'
British /far-sighted American only able to see things that are far away and unable to see things that are close to you such as the writing in a book: · My daughter's long-sighted and wears reading glasses.· Many people become far-sighted as they grow older.
not able to see things very well at all, although not completely blind: · Tape copies are available free of charge to blind and partially sighted people.· I am partially sighted, which makes me a lot more vulnerable.
completely blind or unable to see much - use this especially to talk about special services or equipment for this group of people: · Instructions can also be obained in Braille for the visually impaired.· Visually impaired people have as much right to full access to educational courses as anyone else.
informal having great difficulty in seeing things: · Didn't you see me coming? You must be as blind as a bat!· She's as blind as a bat without her glasses.
the feeling that you can trust someone · After the scandal, the company lost the trust of many of its clients.· Establishing trust is the first thing a good teacher does with any student.trust in · Despite her many misfortunes, her trust in God was never shaken.put/place (your) trust in someone (=trust somebody) · People put their trust in their elected officials and expect them to do the best job they can.betray somebody's trust (=do something that shows they should not have trusted you) · She has betrayed the trust which we placed in her.mutual trust (=when two people or groups trust each other) · To be good leaders, managers must create a climate of mutual trust and respect.
a strong belief that you can trust a person, system, product etc, and that they will do what they say they will or do what they are supposed to do: · The new president has the confidence and backing of all of the leaders of the surrounding states.confidence in: · It's obviously very important to build up the consumer's confidence in our product.lose confidence: · Opinion polls show that the voters have lost confidence in the administration.public confidence (=the confidence of the people): · The agency works hard to increase public confidence so that people are not afraid to report racist incidents. crisis of confidence (=when confidence in a person, system etc becomes very weak): · The country's highly respected Finance Ministry is facing a crisis of confidence that will be difficult to reverse.
a strong belief that someone or something can always be depended on to do or say what is right or good: faith in: · My mother's total faith in God always amazed me.have faith: · He had great faith in her judgement, and consulted her about everything.lose faith: · After what she's been through, I can understand why she's lost faith in the legal system.
a very strong and unreasonable belief that someone can always be trusted, especially when it is wrong or dangerous to trust them: · There's a great difference between ordinary loyalty and blind faith.blind faith in: · Many doctors are worried by the villagers' blind faith in traditional healing methods.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY She’s almost blind in her right eye. He was slowly going blind (=becoming blind). Beverley was born blind.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a brilliant flash of light
She’s almost blind in her right eye. He was slowly going blind (=becoming blind). Beverley was born blind. (=that you cannot see around when you are driving)· Never overtake another car on a blind bend.
(=be blind, deaf etc when born)
(=one that you cannot see around)· The car had come speeding around a blind corner much too fast.
British English (=very drunk) All she wants to do is get blind drunk.
All she wants to do is get blind drunk. (=trusting someone without thinking)· He believes that our blind faith in technology is misplaced.
a brilliant flash of light (=a very bad headache)· He had a throbbing headache, behind his nose and his eyes.
(=extremely bright)· The white buildings reflected a blinding light.
(=used to say that people do not notice the faults of the person they love)· Love is blind, I guess. How else could he stand to be with her?
(=loyalty to a person or group without questioning whether they are right – used disapprovingly)· Sarah was criticized for her blind loyalty to her husband.
(=when you obey rules or a person without thinking about why)· I followed my father's commands with blind obedience.
(=a very strong feeling of fear)· He ran to the library in blind panic.
(=prejudice that stops you from considering the facts)· I tried to show him he was just talking out of blind prejudice.
(=extreme uncontrolled anger that makes someone violent)· He lashed out in a blind rage.
British English (=say very strongly) She swore blind that she had never seen him before.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB She swore blind that she had never seen him before.· Most river dolphins are almost blind.· She stares that wide-eyed stare of hers, an almost blind stare, and jogs on to the court.· His head would explode, and his field of vision would contract until he was almost blind.· In that moment of almost blind panic, she doubted it.· He was almost blind without his glasses.· The plaintiff suffered from deteriorating eyesight and became almost blind.
· It was not until five months after the birth that Leannda's sight deteriorated rapidly until she went completely blind.· Unlike mechanical clocks, which are completely blind to their surroundings, a biological clock gets reset every day by the sun.
· It's left her partially blind and a semi-invalid, an easy target for robbers.· A partially blind, poor, black man with little or no book learning outside of the Bible heard a call.· And in the Homeric spirit, quite a few of the dramatis personae are blind, or partially blind.
· So they spend their lives in darkness, and, having no use for eyes, are totally blind.· The vast majority of people retain some useful sight, however, and very few become totally blind.· She's ninety-three and totally blind.· Where the column crosses an exposed area its flanks are guarded by soldiers, armed with huge jaws and totally blind.· Previously pupils with very little useful vision were referred to and treated all too often as if they were totally blind.· Without an eye you are totally blind.
NOUN· Yet on several occasions when running out of defence he turned down blind alleys.· Progress can not be made without exploring blind alleys.· Dark passageways and blind alleys obscure the light at the end of the tunnel.· If the police went charging up a blind alley as a result of her information, it wouldn't be her fault.· Our analysis should clearly indicate the several blind alleys which Frey here explores.· The echinoderms may seem, from a human point of view, to be a blind alley of no particular importance.· This way of thinking has to be one of the blinder alleys that we have been led up by psychoanalysis.
· A combination of blind bends, and high speed frustrations has created a string of accident black spots.· Miss Defy screeched around a blind bend into the path of an oncoming sedan.
· No one wants to think that they are the product of blind chance and mindless selection.
· Or a blind date with Black Francis??· They met on a blind date.· Once seated, Denice tells us she's only been on a blind date once before, and that was years ago.· In mid-September, he met Pamela Digby on a blind date and proposed.· They chose their high-flying ceremony after a blind date and party brought them together.
· How could people turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to the horrors that they suffered?· Other officers could be bribed to turn a blind eye, said a restaurant owner in the port of Algeciras.· But the police turn a blind eye to the lawbreaking.· He would prefer to turn a blind eye to the problem of asylum seekers around the world.· Windows like blind eyes reflected the lights of passing cars.· They just had to put up with it and turn a blind eye.· The women turn a blind eye.· They no longer supply pretexts for local bullies to oppress, nor reason for western governments to turn a blind eye.
· The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.· Then you reposed an absolutely blind faith in the Emperor!· Memes for blind faith have their own ruthless ways of propagating themselves.· It was not blind faith that drove them to change the world, but a belief very well grounded in reality.· This is true of patriotic and political as well as religious blind faith.· Roof taught me shoulder fakes, which I did on blind faith.· Faith ceases to be laudable when it is blind faith.· Before, it has been with blind faith only.
· The covenant will be an affair of the heart, not just blind obedience to the Law.· Safety is a matter of active attention and alert work practices, not blind obedience to arbitrary rules.· I followed his commands with blind obedience, never bothering to question what his purpose might have been.
· I grabbed a chair in a blind panic but heard Dad call out, telling me to put it down.· Not like shooting Sweet in a moment of blind panic.· The mist thickened and hid it, and I knew a moment's blind panic.· In that moment of almost blind panic, she doubted it.· That relaxed, even jokey, presence we offer you is at times a front for blind panic.· Even in a blind panic he knew better than to go for the tie.· In a crisis, there are two sorts of people: There are those who go into a blind panic.
· You can't see past your own stupid blind prejudice!
· When she went home, there was still the scarlet mark of blind rage across her palms.· She bore him three children and he killed the children and her in a blind rage arranged by Hera.
· By 4.30 I was cruising round Seymour swimming pool, parking on the blind side as far as Sedgeley House was concerned.· As Steve McNair dropped back to throw, Chris Doleman came from his blind side.· If the killer comes prowling around to their side of the tree, they simply dart to the blind side again.· Collegians, McCluskey was once again on hand to finish a blind side move and score in the corner.· Johnston picked up his second try after great support for another fine Jonathan Wilson drive on the blind side.
· The trouble was, Tweed was thinking, Paula had a blind spot where Dalby was concerned.· But even Hymes has his blind spots.· It was the blind spot of the internationalist Left.· It is as though the panel has developed a blind spot which does not admit the possibility that the newcomer might win.· He knew if some one was standing in the blind spot directly behind him, he was in trouble.· Finlayson spent fifteen minutes teaching Tribe the signals, and describing the blind spots of enemy aircraft.· The queue shuffled into a blind spot between two viewports.
· It means blind trust, in the absence of evidence, even in the teeth of evidence.· Krauss never takes anything on blind trust.· For example, hope lies somewhere between blind trust and suspicion, but so does its opposite, despair.· Runyon declined a request to be interviewed Wednesday, and his statement failed to explain why the blind trust ended in 1994.· Many senior public officials keep their stocks in blind trusts throughout their tenure in office.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► not make a blind bit of differencePHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► effing and blinding► rob somebody blind
1unable to see a)unable to see: - For six years, the Government have not taken a blind bit of notice of the Audit Commission's report.
- Faith ceases to be laudable when it is blind faith.
- I followed his commands with blind obedience, never bothering to question what his purpose might have been.
- It was not blind faith that drove them to change the world, but a belief very well grounded in reality.
- Memes for blind faith have their own ruthless ways of propagating themselves.
- Safety is a matter of active attention and alert work practices, not blind obedience to arbitrary rules.
- The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
- Then you reposed an absolutely blind faith in the Emperor!
- This is true of patriotic and political as well as religious blind faith.
- I grabbed a chair in a blind panic but heard Dad call out, telling me to put it down.
- In that moment of almost blind panic, she doubted it.
- Not like shooting Sweet in a moment of blind panic.
- She bore him three children and he killed the children and her in a blind rage arranged by Hera.
- That relaxed, even jokey, presence we offer you is at times a front for blind panic.
- The mist thickened and hid it, and I knew a moment's blind panic.
- A combination of blind bends, and high speed frustrations has created a string of accident black spots.
- Miss Defy screeched around a blind bend into the path of an oncoming sedan.
- The lanes twisted across the spine of land in a series of blind corners and Miranda took each one without changing down.
- It has become a case of the blind leading the blind.
- This is called the blind leading the blind.
- They're building a library for the blind.
- Didn't you see me coming? You must be as blind as a bat!
- I'm as blind as a bat without my glasses.
- She turned her back again, her shoulders heaving, her eyes blind with tears.
- The White House seems blind to the struggles of the middle class.
- Gone are the days when scientists were blind to the world beneath their feet.
- He also loved his daughter, and was blind to her eccentricities.
- I am blinded to the heart.
- Most are blind to their faults.
- Neither television nor the publishing establishment were blind to the possibilities.
- Not that the leaders of the Reformation were blind to this.
- Pentheus by now was blind to everything except his anger and his scorn.
- The therapists and the interviewers who assessed treatment effect were blinded to the drug treatment the patients were receiving.
- Many landlords turn a blind eye to the fact that two families are sharing apartments.
- Automakers say that in their zeal to promote airbags, regulators turned a blind eye to evidence of hazards.
- But the police turn a blind eye to the lawbreaking.
- Directors know this is going on and turn a blind eye.
- He would prefer to turn a blind eye to the problem of asylum seekers around the world.
- Rugby, whose spectators are a fairly respectable lot, turns a blind eye to fighting on the field.
- The best the authorities could do was turn a blind eye.
- The staff knew what was going on but they turned a blind eye.
- They just had to put up with it and turn a blind eye.
- Could you pull the blinds, please?
- I dragged her over to the side of the stage and began pulling the curtains.
- It was getting dark so he pulled the curtains and put on the overhead light.
- Marie pulls the curtains back and steps out.
- She waited until the door was closed and then crossed to the window of her suite, pulling the curtains aside.
- What we do is, pull the curtains shut and switch on the fire.
- When we got to the room she went to pull the curtains.
a school for blind children the needs of blind peopletotally/completely/almost/partially blind She’s almost blind in her right eye. He was slowly going blind (=becoming blind). Beverley was born blind. b)the blind [plural] people who are unable to see: talking books for the blind c)as blind as a bat unable to see well – used humorously: I’m as blind as a bat without my glasses. d)blind with tears/rage/pain etc unable to see because of tears, pain, or a strong emotion: She screamed at him, her eyes blind with tears.2 be blind to something to completely fail to notice or realize something: International companies are all too often blind to local needs. He was totally blind to the faults of his children.3 turn a blind eye (to something) to deliberately ignore something that you know should not be happening: Teachers were turning a blind eye to smoking in school.4 not take/pay a blind bit of notice British English informal to completely ignore what someone does or says, especially in a way that is annoying: He never pays a blind bit of notice to what his staff tell him.5not make a blind bit of difference British English informal used to emphasize that whatever someone says or does will not change the situation at all: Try and talk to her if you want, but I don’t think it’ll make a blind bit of difference.6feelings a)blind faith/prejudice/obedience etc strong feelings that someone has without thinking about why they have them – used to show disapproval: Blind faith sent thousands of people to a pointless war. a story about blind loyalty b)blind panic/rage strong feelings of fear or anger that you cannot control: In a moment of blind panic, she had pulled the trigger and shot the man dead. Blind rage took hold of him.7road blind bend/corner a corner in a road that you cannot see beyond when you are driving8the blind leading the blind used to say that people who do not know much about what they are doing are guiding or advising others who know nothing at all9aircraft blind flying is when you use only instruments to fly an aircraft because you cannot see through cloud, mist etc—blindness noun