From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
[en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en]
1. [en]
*** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
2. * [passage=On it came, and with it came the glorious BLINDING cloud of many-coloured light, and stood before us for a space, turning, as it seemed to us, slowly round and round, and then, accompanied by its attendant pomp of sound, passed away I know not whither.]
3. Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.
4. * [page=382]
5. [en] Brilliant ; marvellous .
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[very bright]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
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*** Adverb
[en-adv]
1. [en] To an extreme degree; blindingly .
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. * {{ quote-journal | en | title=US Note Yields Near 4-Month High Before Durable Goods Report
|work=Bloomberg|date=May 24, 2007|passage=Roger Yates, chief executive officer
of Henderson Group Plc in London, which oversees about $125 billion said
Greenspan's remarks were " BLINDING obvious".}}
**** Translations
[to an extreme degree]
- Finnish: [fi]
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*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. The act of causing blindness .
2. A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface.
3. A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.
**** Translations
[act of causing blindness]
- Galician: [gl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
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*** See also
- effing and blinding
[en]