blindening

Verb

blinden (third-person singular simple present blindens, present participle blindening, simple past and past participle blindened)

1. (rare, transitive) To make or render blind.
   • The race for success has blindened him, making him incapable to lucidly appraise his work and to judge it by higher and more exacting standards than those prevailing in local, more modest competitions.1986, Romanian Review, volume 40, numbers 1-6