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blindering

blindering is the present participle and gerund of blinder.

Meaning of blinder

Verb

blinder (third-person singular simple present blinders, present participle blindering, simple past and past participle blindered)

  1. (transitive) To fit (a horse) with blinders.
  2. (broadly, figuratively, transitive) To obstruct the vision of.
    • […] We climb in hopes / Of such seeing up the leaf-shuttered escarpments, / Blindered by green, under a green-grained sky1958, Sylvia Plath, “Above the Oxbow”, in The Collected Poems, New York: Harper & Row, page 88

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Questions about blindering

What is blindering the present participle and gerund of?
Blindering is the present participle and gerund of blinder.

Words near blindering in the dictionary

  1. blindened
  2. blindening
  3. blindens
  4. blinder
  5. blindered
  6. blindering
  7. blinders
  8. blindest
  9. blindeth
  10. blindfish
  11. blindfishes

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