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sandblind

sandblind adjective: half-blind; partially blind.

Adjective

sandblind (comparative more sandblind, superlative most sandblind)

  1. Half-blind; partially blind.
    • [T]hree of the boys, of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one, used to come in the morning as his humble attendants, and carry him [Johnson] to school. […] The purfly, sand-blind lubber and blubber, with his open mouth, and face of bruised honeycomb; yet already dominant, imperial, irresistible!1832 May, Thomas Carlyle, “[James] Boswell’s Life of [Samuel] Johnson”, in R[alph] W[aldo] E[merson], editor, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: […], volume III, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and...
  2. Dim-sighted.
    • O heauens, this is my true begotten Father, who being more then sand-blinde, high grauel blinde, knows me not, I will trie confusions with him.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

sandblind meaning in Tamil

sandblind in Tamil

அரைக்குருடு

Forms of sandblind

comparativemore sandblind
superlativemost sandblind
alternative formsand-blind

Origin of sandblind

From Middle English sandblynde, alteration (due to association with sand) of *samblynde (“half-blind”), from Old English *sāmblind (“half-blind”), from sam- (“half-”) + blind (“blind”).

Questions about sandblind

What does sandblind mean?
Sandblind means half-blind; partially blind.
What is sandblind in Tamil?
Sandblind in Tamil is அரைக்குருடு. See Sandblind meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sandblind?
Sandblind is an adjective.

Words near sandblind in the dictionary

  1. sandblaster
  2. sandblasters
  3. sandblasting
  4. sandblastings
  5. sandblasts
  6. sandblind
  7. sandblindness
  8. sandblow
  9. sandblows
  10. sandboard
  11. sandboarded

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sandblind (page history and authors); sandblind (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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