1
: causing or seeming to cause blindness : making sight difficult or impossible
a blinding light
a blinding snowstorm
a blinding headache [=an extremely painful headache]
2
: extremely or impressively fast
a runner with blinding speed
blindingly
adverb
a blindingly bright light
blindingly fast speed
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On a recent Saturday, a group of rank-and-file Democrats, standing in the blinding midday sun on a football field in Tucson, Arizona, spoke about their frustrations with their party.
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Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
At least three people have died as a powerful system of storms sweeps across the a wide swathe of the central and southern of the United States, with another three killed in vehicle crashes as blinding winds whipped through Texas and Oklahoma.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2025
Without that tip, the focus on O’Keefe’s death may have remained on a car accident in a blinding snow blizzard, hampering claims during the first trial that Read’s boyfriend had been killed inside the Fairview Road property and that his body had been dumped out in the snow.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2025
By morning, the ache had metastasized into a blinding migraine.
—Cassidy Randall, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2025
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Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
At least three people have died as a powerful system of storms sweeps across the a wide swathe of the central and southern of the United States, with another three killed in vehicle crashes as blinding winds whipped through Texas and Oklahoma.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2025
Without that tip, the focus on O’Keefe’s death may have remained on a car accident in a blinding snow blizzard, hampering claims during the first trial that Read’s boyfriend had been killed inside the Fairview Road property and that his body had been dumped out in the snow.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2025
By morning, the ache had metastasized into a blinding migraine.
—Cassidy Randall, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2025
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“Blinding.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blinding. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.
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