blinding

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: blind=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

blinding, a. 

 Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.  [1913 Webster]

blinding, n. 

 A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

blinding, n.
1 the process of covering a newly made road etc. with grit to fill cracks.
2 such grit.

THESAURUS

blinding

ablepsia, absolute, amaurosis, bedazzling, benightedness, bleeding, blessed, blind side, blind spot, blindfolding, blindness, blinking, blooming, blurring the eyes, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, cat-and-doggish, cataract, cecity, confounded, crude, darkness, dazzling, depriving of sight, dim-sightedness, doggone, downright, drippy, driving, drizzling, drizzly, drop serene, drumming, economic blindness, effulgent, ever-during dark, excecation, execrable, eyelessness, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashy, flaunting, fulgent, fulgid, garish, gaudy, glaring, glary, glaucoma, gross, gutta serena, hoodwinking, infernal, lack of vision, loud, lurid, making blind, misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, niphablepsia, obscuring, outright, overbright, partial blindness, pelting, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, pouring, psychic blindness, rainy, rank, raw, reduced sight, refulgent, resplendent, screaming, showery, shrieking, sightless eyes, sightlessness, snow blindness, soul-blindness, spiritual blindness, splendent, splendid, splendorous, stone-blindness, streaming, total blindness, trachoma, unenlightenment, unmitigated, unseeingness, vivid