| 单词 | blinding |
| 释义 | blinding (once / 1385 pages) adj If something is blinding, it's so bright that it makes you lose your vision temporarily. The blinding light of a camera flash can be very annoying. The bright or dazzling light of fireworks, a flashlight, or even light glinting off of a mirror or a diamond necklace can all be blinding, rendering you briefly unable to see. Anything you can't see through can be described this way, like blinding rain or the blinding white of a blizzard, and even pain is sometimes blinding. The word shares an Old English root with blind, blendan, "to deprive of sight." WORD FAMILYblinding: blindingest+/blind: blinded, blinder, blindest, blinding, blindingly, blindly, blindness, blinds/blinder: blinders/blindness: blindnesses USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s been building up for years, and now the contrasts in America are so glaring as to be blinding. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) Thousands of shows, each aglow with however dim a wattage, generate a collective, steady glare, blinding memory. The New Yorker(Dec 29, 2016) There were washboard abs and dad bods, tattooed torsos and blinding white chests that seemed as if they hadn’t seen the sun this millennium. Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016) adj shining intensely blinding headlights Syn blazing, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary bright emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts |
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