Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Blind \Blind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blinded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Blinding}.]
   1. To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. ``To
      blind the truth and me.'' --Tennyson.

            A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a
            guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . .
            a much greater.                       --South.

   2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult
      for and painful to; to dazzle.

            Her beauty all the rest did blind.    --P. Fletcher.

   3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to
      conceal; to deceive.

            Such darkness blinds the sky.         --Dryden.

            The state of the controversy between us he
            endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.
                                                  --Stillingfleet.

   4. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a
      road newly paved, in order that the joints between the
      stones may be filled.

Blinding \Blind"ing\, a.
   Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of
   understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.

Blinding \Blind"ing\, n.
   A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved
   road. See {Blind}, v. t., 4.

Source : WordNet®

blinding
     adj : shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights";
           "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the
           glaring sun" [syn: {blazing}, {dazzling}, {fulgent}, {glaring},
            {glary}]