Pronunciations (4)
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/ˈblaɪndə/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈblaɪndɚ/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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ˈblaɪndə
Pronunciation notes
- GB
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ˈblaɪndɚ
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- US
Noun
Something that blinds, literally or figuratively. A bag or cloth put over the head of a difficult horse while it is being handled or mounted.
Something that blinds, literally or figuratively. A screen attached to a horse's bridle preventing it from being able to see things to its side.
Usage- often
- plural
- Plural only
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From both sides of his head a blackness swiftly grew like blinders on a horse and darkly narrowed his field of vision.
Something that blinds, literally or figuratively. Something that impairs visual or mental perception in a way figuratively compared to horses' blinders.
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Orientalism itself, furthermore, was an exclusively male province; like so many professional guilds during the modern period, it viewed itself and its subject matter with sexist blinders.
As it was, innocence was his blinder.
I, I, got a new girlfriend / She feels like he's on top / And I don't feel no remorse / And you can't see past my blinders
Something that blinds, literally or figuratively. An exceptional performance.
Usage- UK usage
- Slang
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He played a blinder this afternoon on the cricket ground.
And we asked the blue winger, who in our game / had played what they call a blinder, to help out
Something that blinds, literally or figuratively. A bout of heavy drinking.
Usage- Slang
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If a man goes out on a blinder, he might be charged with being drunk and incapable and therefore have a criminal record, although he is an honourable man.
Something that blinds, literally or figuratively. A bright light used to blind the audience temporarily during a scene change.
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When the 'blinders' are switched off, and the audience's eyes given time to re-adjust, the new scene is in place […]
Verb
To fit (a horse) with blinders.
Usage- Transitive
To obstruct the vision of.
Usage- broadly
- Figurative
- Transitive
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[…] We climb in hopes / Of such seeing up the leaf-shuttered escarpments, / Blindered by green, under a green-grained sky
They think they're being focussed when they're really just blindering their eyes, as a farmer would a plough horse, to ways of getting to their goal faster.
Noun
blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side