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blind
Overview of noun blind
The noun blind has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (5) blind -- (people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group; "he spent hours reading to the blind")
2. (1) blind -- (a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); "he waited impatiently in the blind")
3. (1) blind, screen -- (something that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet")
4. subterfuge, blind -- (something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind")
Overview of verb blind
The verb blind has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (3) blind -- (render unable to see)
2. (2) blind -- (make blind by putting the eyes out; "The criminals were punished and blinded")
3. blind, dim -- (make dim by comparison or conceal)
Overview of adj blind
The adj blind has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (11) blind, unsighted -- (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"--Kenneth Jernigan)
2. (4) blind -- (unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions")
3. (3) blind, unreasoning -- (not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun blind
4 senses of blind
Sense 1
blind
=> people
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
blind
=> screen, cover, covert, concealment
=> covering
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
blind, screen
=> protective covering, protective cover, protection
=> covering
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 4
subterfuge, blind
=> misrepresentation, deceit, deception
=> falsehood, falsity, untruth
=> statement
=> message, content, subject matter, substance
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun blind
1 of 4 senses of blind
Sense 3
blind, screen
=> curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall
=> shutter
=> window blind
=> winker, blinker, blinder
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun blind
4 senses of blind
Sense 1
blind
=> people
Sense 2
blind
=> screen, cover, covert, concealment
Sense 3
blind, screen
=> protective covering, protective cover, protection
Sense 4
subterfuge, blind
=> misrepresentation, deceit, deception
Antonyms of noun blind
Member Holonyms of noun blind
Substance Holonyms of noun blind
Part Holonyms of noun blind
Member Meronyms of noun blind
1 of 4 senses of blind
Sense 1
blind
HAS MEMBER: blind person
Substance Meronyms of noun blind
Part Meronyms of noun blind
Meronyms of noun blind
1 of 4 senses of blind
Sense 1
blind
HAS MEMBER: blind person
Holonyms of noun blind
Attributes of noun blind
Derived Forms of noun blind
1 of 4 senses of blind
Sense 1
blind
RELATED TO>(verb) blind#1
=> blind
RELATED TO>(verb) blind#2
=> blind
Domain of noun blind
Domain Terms of noun blind
Familiarity of noun blind
blind used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun blind
4 senses of blind
Sense 1
blind
> people
=> peoples
=> age group, age bracket, cohort
=> ancients
=> baffled
=> blind
=> blood
=> brave
=> timid, cautious
=> business people, businesspeople
=> damned
=> dead
=> living
=> deaf
=> defeated, discomfited
=> disabled, handicapped
=> doomed, lost
=> enemy
=> episcopacy, episcopate
=> folk, folks, common people
=> free, free people
=> homebound
=> initiate, enlightened
=> uninitiate
=> mentally retarded, retarded
=> network army
=> nationality
=> peanut gallery
=> pocket
=> retreated
=> sick
=> tradespeople
=> wounded, maimed
=> migration
=> class, social class, socio-economic class
=> nation, land, country
=> poor people, poor
=> rich people, rich
=> populace, public, world
=> population
=> community
=> coevals, contemporaries, generation
=> lobby
=> clientele, patronage, business
=> rank and file
=> smart money
=> unconfessed
=> unemployed people, unemployed
=> womankind
=> chosen people
Sense 2
blind
> screen, cover, covert, concealment
=> blind
=> camouflage
=> shoji
=> stalking-horse
Sense 3
blind, screen
> protective covering, protective cover, protection
=> armor, armour
=> bell jar, bell glass
=> binder, ring-binder
=> binding, book binding, cover, back
=> blind, screen
=> bracer, armguard
=> cap
=> cloche
=> coaster
=> cold frame
=> crystal, watch crystal, watch glass
=> dust cover
=> faceplate
=> facing, cladding
=> fallboard, fall-board
=> finger plate, escutcheon, scutcheon
=> heat shield
=> hood, bonnet, cowl, cowling
=> housing
=> lining
=> mask
=> mulch
=> roof
=> roof
=> screen
=> shade
=> sheath
=> sheathing, overlay, overlayer
=> shelter
=> shield
=> splashboard, splasher, dashboard
=> splasher
=> testudo
=> thumbstall
=> toecap
=> washboard, splashboard
Sense 4
subterfuge, blind
> misrepresentation, deceit, deception
=> bill of goods
=> humbug, snake oil
=> half-truth
=> facade, window dressing
=> exaggeration, overstatement, magnification
=> snow job
=> pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling
=> subterfuge, blind
=> trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery
=> fraudulence, duplicity
=> evasion, equivocation
Meronyms of noun blind
4 senses of blind
Sense 1
blind
HAS MEMBER: blind person
=> people
HAS MEMBER: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Sense 2
blind
=> screen, cover, covert, concealment
=> covering
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Sense 3
blind, screen
=> protective covering, protective cover, protection
=> covering
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Holonyms of noun blind
Grep of noun blind
blind
blind alley
blind bend
blind corner
blind curve
blind date
blind eel
blind flying
blind gentian
blind gut
blind landing
blind person
blind side
blind snake
blind spot
blind staggers
blind stitching
blind trust
blinder
blindfold
blindman's bluff
blindman's buff
blindness
blindworm
color-blind person
double-blind experiment
double-blind procedure
double-blind study
double blind
roller blind
sunblind
venetian blind
western blind snake
window blind
Antonyms of verb blind
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb blind
3 senses of blind
Sense 1
blind
Sense 2
blind
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 3
blind, dim
=> darken
=> change, alter, modify
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb blind
2 of 3 senses of blind
Sense 1
blind
=> dazzle, bedazzle, daze
=> seel
=> snow-blind
Sense 2
blind
=> abacinate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb blind
3 senses of blind
Sense 1
blind
Sense 2
blind
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 3
blind, dim
=> darken
'Cause To' of verb blind
Derived Forms of verb blind
2 of 3 senses of blind
Sense 1
blind
RELATED TO>(noun) blinder#1
=> winker, blinker, blinder
RELATED TO>(noun) blind#1
=> blind
Sense 2
blind
RELATED TO>(noun) blind#1
=> blind
Domain of verb blind
Domain Terms of verb blind
Familiarity of verb blind
blind used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb blind
3 senses of blind
Sense 1
blind
*> Something ----s somebody
Sense 2
blind
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Something ----s somebody
Sense 3
blind, dim
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb blind
2 of 3 senses of blind
Sense 2
blind
> change, alter, modify
=> awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse
=> cause to sleep
=> affect
=> refresh, freshen, refreshen
=> inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise
=> indispose
=> cry
=> etiolate
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> opalize, opalise
=> arterialize, arterialise
=> make, get
=> counterchange, transpose, interchange
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn
=> etiolate
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise
=> allegorize, allegorise
=> demythologize, demythologise
=> bring, land
=> coarsen
=> affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
=> alchemize, alchemise
=> alcoholize, alcoholise
=> shape, form
=> round off, round down, round out, round
=> suspend
=> sober
=> reconstruct
=> increase
=> ease up, ease off, let up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> commute, convert, exchange
=> vitalize, vitalise
=> unclutter, clear
=> activate
=> activate
=> activate, aerate
=> activate
=> inactivate, deactivate
=> deaden, blunt
=> remodel, reconstruct, redo
=> edit, redact
=> edit, cut, edit out
=> tame, chasten, subdue
=> chasten, moderate, temper
=> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
=> worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
=> wet
=> dry, dry out
=> lubricate
=> strengthen, beef up, fortify
=> spike, lace, fortify
=> weaken
=> blunt
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> unite, unify, merge
=> age
=> ripen, mature
=> antique, antiquate
=> antiquate
=> develop, make grow
=> soften
=> damage
=> ossify
=> acerbate
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> habituate, accustom
=> disorder, disarray
=> discolor
=> color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
=> stain
=> hue
=> uglify
=> untune
=> adjust, set, correct
=> set
=> disqualify, unfit, indispose
=> domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame
=> widen
=> dehydrogenate
=> hydrogenate
=> oxygenize, oxygenise
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten up, lighten
=> blur, blear
=> obscure, bedim, overcloud
=> obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide
=> cook
=> slenderize, slenderise
=> crack
=> dissolve, dismiss
=> end, terminate
=> demist, defog
=> condense, concentrate, contract
=> cool, chill, cool down
=> heat, heat up
=> warm
=> boil
=> freeze
=> blister
=> switch, change over, shift
=> transpose
=> convert, change over
=> transform
=> transform
=> transform
=> transmute
=> transform, transmute, transubstantiate
=> ash
=> translate, transform
=> reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify
=> convert
=> Islamize, Islamise
=> turn back, invert, reverse
=> invert
=> customize, customise
=> personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise
=> depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify
=> sharpen
=> flatten, drop
=> disintegrate
=> magnetize, magnetise
=> demagnetize, demagnetise, degauss
=> simplify
=> complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
=> refine
=> complicate, perplex
=> supercharge, pressurize, pressurise
=> centralize, centralise, concentrate
=> decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise
=> socialize, socialise
=> fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set
=> internationalize, internationalise
=> communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> bestialize, bestialise
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> Frenchify
=> civilize, civilise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> denationalize, denationalise
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
=> even, even out
=> equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate
=> stiffen
=> loosen, loose
=> tighten, fasten
=> transitivize, transitivise
=> detransitivize, detransitivise, intransitivize, intransitivise
=> thicken, inspissate
=> full
=> diversify
=> deaden
=> check, retard, delay
=> decrease, lessen, minify
=> liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise
=> solvate
=> dissolve
=> validate
=> invalidate, void, vitiate
=> empty
=> fill, fill up, make full
=> saturate
=> clot, coagulate
=> louden
=> normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise
=> morph
=> neutralize, neutralise
=> commercialize, commercialise, market
=> purify, purge, sanctify
=> mechanize, mechanise
=> automatize, automatise, automate
=> automatize, automatise
=> mechanize, mechanise
=> harmonize, harmonise, chord
=> polarize, polarise
=> glorify
=> contaminate
=> devalue
=> insulate
=> calcify
=> urbanize, urbanise
=> urbanize, urbanise
=> emulsify
=> demulsify
=> decarboxylate
=> nazify
=> fertilize, fecundate, fertilise
=> clarify
=> embrittle
=> mark
=> barb
=> nick
=> disable, disenable, incapacitate
=> enable
=> de-emphasize, de-emphasise, destress
=> tender, tenderize, tenderise
=> charge
=> sweeten
=> iodinate
=> ionate
=> archaize, archaise
=> inform
=> officialize, officialise
=> occidentalize, occidentalise, westernize, westernise
=> orientalize, orientalise
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> achromatize, achromatise
=> parallel, collimate
=> camp
=> classicize, classicise
=> conventionalize, conventionalise
=> decimalize, decimalise
=> dizzy
=> poison, envenom
=> exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify
=> glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, glamorise
=> introvert
=> laicize, laicise
=> politicize, politicise
=> radicalize
=> proof
=> romanticize, romanticise
=> rusticate
=> sauce
=> shallow, shoal
=> tense
=> steepen
=> scramble
=> unscramble
=> unsex
=> vitrify
=> pall
=> saponify
=> extend, expand
=> suspend, set aside
=> muddy
=> transform
=> lift, raise, elevate
=> harshen
=> dinge
=> demonize, demonise
=> devilize, devilise, diabolize, diabolise
=> etherealize, etherialise
=> immaterialize, immaterialise, unsubstantialize, unsubstantialise
=> animize, animise, animate
=> clear
=> dynamize, dynamise
=> dynamize, dynamise
=> rarefy, sublimate, subtilize
=> volatilize, volatilise
=> uniformize, uniformise
=> symmetrize, symmetrise
=> immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise
=> denature
=> denature
=> denature
=> sanitize, sanitise
=> verbify
=> shift
=> sputter
=> draw
=> make
=> dope
=> prostrate
=> excite
=> excite, energize, energise
=> shake
=> outmode
=> spice, spice up
=> shorten
=> think
=> make
=> deflate
=> inflate
=> reflate
=> digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise, effeminize, erreminise, womanize
=> masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise
=> masculinize
=> disharmonize, dissonate
=> sexualize, sexualise
=> schematize, schematise
=> patent
=> constitutionalize, constitutionalise
=> rationalize, rationalise
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> rarefy
=> paganize, paganise
=> incandesce
=> deaminate, deaminize
=> angulate
=> circularize
=> sensitize, sensitise
=> sensitize, sensitise
=> depolarize, depolarise
=> intensify
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> legitimate
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> opacify
=> opsonize
=> militarize, militarise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> recommend
=> sentimentalize, sentimentalise
=> solemnize, solemnise
=> territorialize, territorialise
=> transaminate
=> transfigure, glorify, spiritualize
=> unsanctify
=> vesiculate
=> visualize, visualise
=> variegate
=> ventilate
=> vivify
=> vulgarise, vulgarize
=> supple
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> smut
=> still
=> weaponize
=> eroticize, sex up
=> piggyback
=> confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate
=> confuse
=> tone down, moderate, tame
=> obfuscate
=> synchronize, synchronise
=> mince, soften, moderate
=> militarize, militarise
=> break down, crush
=> fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
=> touch, disturb
=> dull
=> dull, blunt
=> sharpen
=> coarsen
=> loosen
=> untie, undo, loosen
=> barb
=> string
=> straighten, straighten out
=> bring
=> mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate
=> charge
=> put
=> clean, make clean
=> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
=> lower, depress
=> deform
=> break, break up
=> alter
=> decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
=> humanize, humanise
=> humble
=> estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect
=> right
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> deodorize, deodorise, deodourise
=> develop
=> blur
=> blind
=> change intensity
=> change taste
=> capture
=> lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring
=> restore, reinstate, reestablish
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> right, compensate, redress, correct
=> democratize, democratise
=> neutralize
=> corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect
=> relax, loosen
=> unite, unify
=> flocculate
=> turn
=> make possible
=> cohere
Sense 3
blind, dim
> darken
=> embrown
=> murk
=> dun
=> blind, dim
=> dim
=> obscure, benight, bedim
=> overcast, cloud
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb blind
Sense 1
blind
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Sense 2
blind
=> change, alter, modify
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Sense 3
blind, dim
=> darken
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Grep of verb blind
blind
blindfold
blindside
fly blind
snow-blind
turn a blind eye
Antonyms of adj blind
3 senses of blind
Sense 1
blind (vs. sighted), unsighted
sighted (vs. blind)
=> argus-eyed, hawk-eyed, keen-sighted, lynx-eyed, quick-sighted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted
=> clear-sighted
=> seeing
Sense 2
blind
INDIRECT (VIA unperceptive) -> perceptive
Sense 3
blind, unreasoning
INDIRECT (VIA irrational) -> rational
Similarity of adj blind
3 senses of blind
Sense 1
blind (vs. sighted), unsighted
=> blinded
=> blindfold, blindfolded
=> color-blind, colour-blind
=> dazzled
=> deuteranopic, green-blind
=> dim-sighted, near-blind, purblind, sand-blind, visually impaired, visually challenged
=> eyeless, sightless, unseeing
=> protanopic, red-blind
=> snow-blind, snow-blinded
=> stone-blind
=> tritanopic, blue-blind
Sense 2
blind
=> unperceptive (vs. perceptive), unperceiving
Sense 3
blind, unreasoning
=> irrational (vs. rational)
Pertainyms of adj blind
Attributes of adj blind
Domain of adj blind
Domain Terms of adj blind
Familiarity of adj blind
blind used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Grep of adj blind
blind
blind drunk
blinded
blindfold
blindfolded
blinding
blue-blind
color-blind
colour-blind
green-blind
near-blind
purblind
red-blind
sand-blind
snow-blind
stone-blind
word-blind
Grep of adv blind
blindly
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