Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to blind
Participle: blinded
Gerund: blinding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | blind |
| you | blind |
| he;she;it | blinds |
| we | blind |
| you | blind |
| they | blind |
Perfect
| I | have blinded |
| you | have blinded |
| he;she;it | has blinded |
| we | have blinded |
| you | have blinded |
| they | have blinded |
Past
| I | blinded |
| you | blinded |
| he;she;it | blinded |
| we | blinded |
| you | blinded |
| they | blinded |
Pluperfect
| I | had blinded |
| you | had blinded |
| he;she;it | had blinded |
| we | had blinded |
| you | had blinded |
| they | had blinded |
Future
| I | will blind |
| you | will blind |
| he;she;it | will blind |
| we | will blind |
| you | will blind |
| they | will blind |
Future Perfect
| I | will have blinded |
| you | will have blinded |
| he;she;it | will have blinded |
| we | will have blinded |
| you | will have blinded |
| they | will have blinded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | blind |
| you | blind |
| he;she;it | blind |
| we | blind |
| you | blind |
| they | blind |
Perfect
| I | have blinded |
| you | have blinded |
| he;she;it | have blinded |
| we | have blinded |
| you | have blinded |
| they | have blinded |
Imperfect
| I | blinded |
| you | blinded |
| he;she;it | blinded |
| we | blinded |
| you | blinded |
| they | blinded |
Pluperfect
| I | had blinded |
| you | had blinded |
| he;she;it | had blinded |
| we | had blinded |
| you | had blinded |
| they | had blinded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would blind |
| you | would blind |
| he;she;it | would blind |
| we | would blind |
| you | would blind |
| they | would blind |
Perfect
| I | would have blinded |
| you | would have blinded |
| he;she;it | would have blinded |
| we | would have blinded |
| you | would have blinded |
| they | would have blinded |
Imperative
| you | blind |
| we | Let's blind |
| you | blind |
Verbs conjugated like 'blind'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'blind'
bind,
bland,
blend,
blin,
blink,
blond,
aline,
amind,
band,
beblind,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
blind "blind," probably sharing with
blend a P.Gmc. base
*blindaz, from PIE base
*bhlendh- "to glimmer indistinctly, to mix, confuse" (cf. Lith.
blendzas "blind,"
blesti "to become dark"). The original sense, not of "sightless," but of "confused," perhaps underlies such phrases as
blind alley. The verb is O.E.
blendan, influenced in M.E. by the adj. The noun meaning "anything that obstructs sight" is from 1535.
Blindman's bluff is from 1590.
Blind date is from 1920s.
Blind side "unguarded aspect" is from 1606; the verb meaning "to hit from the blind side" (written as one word) first attested 1968, Amer.Eng., in ref. to U.S. football.
"The twilight, or rather the hour between the time when one can no longer see to read and the lighting of the candles, is commonly called blindman's holiday." [1796]
2. From Middle English blynd, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.
3. Cognate with Danish, Dutch, German, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish blind, Faroese and Icelandic blindur.
Verbs referencing "blind"
Norwegian, nynorsk
blinda, English
blunder, Spanish
blindar, Luxembourgish
blennen.
Sample Sentences
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[...] slender streams, abound. Every little colony of houses has its church and school-house peeping from among the white roofs and shady trees; every house is the whitest of the white; every Venetian blind the greenest of the green; every fine day 's sky the bluest of the blue. A sharp dry wind and a slight frost had so hardened the roads when we alighted at Worcester, that their furrowed tracks were [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Eva, after this, declined rapidly; there was no more any doubt of the event; the fondest hope could not be blinded. Her beautiful room was avowedly a sick room; and Miss Ophelia day and night performed the duties of a nurse,—and never did her friends appreciate her value more than in that capacity. With so [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)