disease or disability resulting from conditions of employment (usually from long exposure to a noxious substance or from continuous repetition of certain acts)
something that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"
a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); "he waited impatiently in the blind"
people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group; "he spent hours reading to the blind"
unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions"
not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic"
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
make dim by comparison or conceal
make blind by putting the eyes out; "The criminals were punished and blinded"
expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance"