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unblinding

unblinding is the present participle and gerund of unblind.

Meaning of unblind

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.

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Questions about unblinding

What is unblinding the present participle and gerund of?
Unblinding is the present participle and gerund of unblind.

Words near unblinding in the dictionary

  1. unblindered
  2. unblindfold
  3. unblindfolded
  4. unblindfolding
  5. unblindfolds
  6. unblinding
  7. unblinds
  8. unblinker
  9. unblinkered
  10. unblinkering
  11. unblinkers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unblinding (page history and authors); 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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