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unblind

unblind verb: to free from blindness.

Verb

unblind (third-person singular simple present unblinds, present participle unblinding, simple past and past participle unblinded)

  1. (figuratively, sometimes) To free from blindness.
  2. To remove the secrecy from (a bid).
  3. (transitive) To convert (a blind signature) back to the unblinded state (as opposed to the blinded state).
  4. To cause (experimenters) to learn information which, for the purposes of avoiding bias, was previously unknown to them, or should be unknown to them, such as the knowledge of which patients received a drug and which a placebo.

Adjective

unblind (comparative more unblind, superlative most unblind)

  1. Not blind.

Forms of unblind

Verb
third-person singular presentunblinds
present participleunblinding
past participleunblinded
pastunblinded
Adjective
comparativemore unblind
superlativemost unblind

Origin of unblind

From un- + blind.

Questions about unblind

What does unblind mean?
Unblind means to free from blindness.
What part of speech is unblind?
Unblind can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of unblind?
The past tense of unblind is unblinded.

Words near unblind in the dictionary

  1. unblight
  2. unblightable
  3. unblighted
  4. unblighting
  5. unblights
  6. unblind
  7. unblinded
  8. unblindered
  9. unblindfold
  10. unblindfolded
  11. unblindfolding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unblind (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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