Definitions for blinds

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blinds blind

Spelling: [blahynd]

IPA: /blaɪnd/

Blinds is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in blinds (bdilns).

Definitions for blinds

noun

1. something that obstructs vision, as a blinker for a horse.
2. a window covering having horizontal or vertical slats that can be drawn out of the way, often with the angle of the slats adjustable to admit varying amounts of light.
3. venetian blind.
4. Chiefly Midland U.S. and British. window shade.
5. a lightly built structure of brush or other growths, especially one in which hunters conceal themselves:
6. an activity, organization, or the like for concealing or masking action or purpose; subterfuge:
7. a decoy.
8. Slang. a bout of excessive drinking; drunken spree.
9. Poker. a compulsory bet made without prior knowledge of one's hand.
10. (used with a plural verb) persons who lack the sense of sight (usually preceded by the):

Idioms

1. fly blind. fly1 (def 34).

adverb

1. into a stupor; to the degree at which consciousness is lost:
2. without the ability to see clearly; lacking visibility; blindly:
3. without guidance or forethought:
4. to an extreme or absolute degree; completely:

adjective

1. unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless:
2. unwilling or unable to perceive or understand:
3. not characterized or determined by reason or control:
4. not having or based on reason or intelligence; absolute and unquestioning:
5. lacking all consciousness or awareness:
6. drunk.
7. hard to see or understand:
8. hidden from immediate view, especially from oncoming motorists:
9. of concealed or undisclosed identity; sponsored anonymously:
10. having no outlets; closed at one end:
11. Architecture. (of an archway, arcade, etc.) having no windows, passageways, or the like.
12. dense enough to form a screen:
13. done without seeing; by instruments alone:
14. made without some prior knowledge:
15. of or relating to an experimental design that prevents investigators or subjects from knowing the hypotheses or conditions being tested.
16. of, relating to, or for blind persons.
17. Bookbinding. (of a design, title, or the like) impressed into the cover or spine of a book by a die without ink or foil.
18. Cookery. (of pastry shells) baked or fried without the filling.
19. (of a rivet or other fastener) made so that the end inserted, though inaccessible, can be headed or spread.

verb (used with object)

1. to make sightless permanently, temporarily, or momentarily, as by injuring, dazzling, bandaging the eyes, etc.:
2. to make obscure or dark:
3. to deprive of discernment, reason, or judgment:
4. to outshine; eclipse:

Origin of blinds

before 1000; (adj.) Middle English blind, Old English; cognate with Gothic blinds, Old Norse blindr, German, Dutch blind (Germanic *blindaz, perhaps akin to blend; o

Examples for blinds

That was when the blinds were closed, blocking Fretland and the other witnesses from what happened next.

“Hey, the blinds are moving,” one of the teens said, according to The Dallas Morning News.

It blinds us to its presence, even as it works to obscure our reality and provide logical explanations for illogical facts.

Levin rightly disparages the “nostalgia” that he says “blinds” both liberals and conservatives to this new reality.

People are not particular about lowering the blinds in the country.

But this is pernicious, Hayes argues, because it blinds us to the eventual results of these sorts of systems.

There were doors opened, blinds pushed aside, faces—that sort of thing.

The blinds were left up, and I was free to observe all that passed.

The outer gate was shut, and all the blinds on the front of the house were closed.

The temptation of this ready cash often blinds the landlord to his future interest.