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blindsiding

blindsiding is the present participle and gerund of blindside.

Meaning of blindside

Verb

blindside (third-person singular simple present blindsides, present participle blindsiding, simple past and past participle blindsided)

  1. (transitive) To attack (a person) on their blind side.
    • The robbers crept out of the forest and blindsided the traveller.
  2. (figuratively, informal, transitive) To catch off guard; to take by surprise.
    • He had completed his plan to develop a new office building, but was blindsided by the sudden drop in real estate values.

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Noun

blindsiding (plural blindsidings)

  1. The act by which a person is blindsided, or caught off guard.
    • I grew a mantle of radar, sensitized to the blindsidings and the character-ambush attempts.2012, Joachim Kempin, Resolve and Fortitude, page 83

Forms of blindsiding

pluralblindsidings

Words that rhyme with blindsiding

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Questions about blindsiding

What does blindsiding mean?
Blindsiding means the act by which a person is blindsided, or caught off guard.
What is blindsiding the present participle and gerund of?
Blindsiding is the present participle and gerund of blindside.
What part of speech is blindsiding?
Blindsiding is a noun.
What is the plural of blindsiding?
The plural of blindsiding is blindsidings.

Words near blindsiding in the dictionary

  1. blindside flankers
  2. blindsided
  3. blindsider
  4. blindsiders
  5. blindsides
  6. blindsiding
  7. blindsidings
  8. blindsight
  9. blindsighted
  10. blindsighter
  11. blindsighters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blindsiding (page history and authors); blindside (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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