blind
noun
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
he spent hours reading to the blind
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Sense 2 verb
render unable to see
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Sense 3 adjective
unable to see
a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision
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Sense 4 noun
a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
he waited impatiently in the blind
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Sense 5 verb
make blind by putting the eyes out
The criminals were punished and blinded
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Sense 6 adjective
unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
blind to a lover's faults
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Sense 7 noun
a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet
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Sense 8 verb
make dim by comparison or conceal
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Sense 9 adjective
not based on reason or evidence
blind hatred
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Sense 10 noun
something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | blind |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | blind |
| 1 | member meronym | Parts & wholes | blind person |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | people |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | blinder |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | blind |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | dazzle |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | seel |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | snow-blind |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | sighted |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | blindness |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | blinded |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | blindfold |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | color-blind |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | dazzled |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | deuteranopic |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | purblind |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | sightless |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | protanopic |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | snow-blind |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | stone-blind |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | tritanopic |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | cover |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | blind |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | abacinate |
| 6 | similar to | Related & opposite | unperceptive |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | shield |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | block out |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | protective covering |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | curtain |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | shutter |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | window blind |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | blinder |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | darken |
| 9 | similar to | Related & opposite | irrational |
| 10 | hypernym | Types & categories | deception |